shadow@uafhp.uark.edu (Kyoki-san) (08/14/90)
My desktop died yesterday, so I must once again rely on my trusty Model 100 as my only computer away from work. I have been using this machine for about six years now. I've dropped it from waist high onto concrete, ran the batteries flat, you name the abuse, I've done it and the worst problem I've ever had is a few screws coming loose. It still has the original Nicad battery! Anyway, enough praise, I would like to know where I can find stuff in the public domain or even commercially for my computer. I used to have some handy utilites for it from R/S, but I seem to have lost the tape. I primarily use mine as a notebook/address book/phone dialer/terminal (not in that order). So, the termcap entry I read a bove was very handy. Please give me any information no matter how trivial. Is there enough interest to start an archive site? I am logged in via a large HP Unix box...
sumner@usceast.UUCP (David Sumner) (08/16/90)
In Article 1099shadow@uafhp.uark.edu (Kyoki-san) writes:
Anyway, enough praise, I would like to know where I can find stuff in the
public domain or even commercially for my computer.[Model 100]
Well, both Compuserve and Genie have Model 100 forums with quite a bit
of public domain software.
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David Sumner
"If you ask a fish to describe its environment, the last thing it mentions
is water."rstepno@eagle.wesleyan.edu (08/21/90)
Hmm... Just after I started following this Model 100 thread,
I suffered my first Model 100 crash in four years of owning
the cute little thing. And of course I had a day's unbacked-up
work on it. Turned it on and all files were gone, only the
original menu (no SuperROM), and the available memory suggested
that 24K of RAM had disappeared.
A friend who is more of a hardware hacker borrowed the machine,
popped out one of the chips and says it works again... If he's
right the problem was one bad RAM chip.
Which gets to the reason for this message (other than soliciting
alternative diagnoses of the problem)>
The reason: What are the current sources of RAM for
the original Model 100?
How much are chips going for?
Has anyone had a similar failure lead to
additional problems?
Thanks,
Bob in CTcjp@megatek.UUCP (Christopher J. Pikus) (03/05/91)
I'm thinking of getting a R/S Model 102(?) and am interested in what hardware/software mods have been done to one. Would some of you netters be so kind as to post details of some of your Mod100 projects. In particular I would be interested in: 1. memory expansion 2. memory expansion (ROM) as in what applications did you embed into rom for personal use. 3. did you do anything useful with the 300 baud modem? 4. any hardware additions? 5. any neat system software written? thank you very much.. -- Wax your board, waste your brain, and pray for waves... Christopher J. Pikus, Megatek Corp. INTERNET: cjp@megatek.uucp San Diego, CA UUCP: uunet!megatek!cjp or ucsd!megatek!cjp