So it seems that the inevitable happened. After pulling it out of storage a bit more than a year ago, the hard drive finally gave up the ghost. :-/ OF COURSE no backups since there was no warning. I can bring it back to where it was when I started everything, but there’s another hitch. I leave tomorrow for 3…
Author: Tuc .
Tuc, owner and Sysop of RACS III started his computing adventures on an IBM 5110 with a 4 inch screen, 16K Basic, 2 8" floppy drives and a 132 column dot matrix printer in 1978. After retiring for a bit to Tucs Beachin OBX House in NC, he came back and is now the Senior Site Reliability Engineering Manager for a global SAAS company.
The First Login by SUSAN THUNDER!
(Déjà vu all over again!) Before I get into that, a little story So I had finished doing all the work on the machine. It was up, it was running, it was doing fine. Little did I know that Susan Thunder has left me a surprise! It had been running for days without incident. I took the time to do…
Change in Machine Cleaning and Home Technology
(Or maybe the video below) Geez, I actually remember I’m actually old enough to remember MTV when it came on the air. I specifically sat and watched it. I wanted that excitement and feeling about this post. Too bad the first video wasn’t appropriate. Not because of lyrics, nudity, etc. Because it was called, appropriately, “Video Killed The Radio Star”…
Blog Post – A Collection of My Blogs!!
(There’s been some confusion) The first entry is actually the last one as you scroll through, I set this one up looking like blog! The most current entry at at the top. So you really need to be starting at, well, the beginning. There are “Previous” buttons accordingly on the top and “Next” buttons on the bottom to help go…
Disk Drive Dilemmas: Tech Triumphs and Tribulations
(Holding at T-minus one) NOW whats the holdup Tuc? So I was just doing some of the final prep to get things going, when I ran into an issue. I was trying to make a backup of my boot disk for the 0 drive. Given the age, possible alignment and head issues, I wanted to have a few backups of…
A Thank You Note To Everyone Who Made This Possible
(And I hope I didn’t leave anyone out!) There are plenty of people to thank. This was not a solo project by any mean, all of the members deserves a “Thank You!” Thanks to Ira Owner of the TRS-80 website. This is the predominant source for anything Tandy computer related. I’ve known Ira since I first got my Model I.…
Network Connectivity: From Local Lab to Global Reach
(Not going to be published in this article) My address – 192.168.33.247, Apartment 2323 If you’ve been following this closely. And I know not even my mother has been), the whole point of this project was to get this working to be available over the internet. It now works in my lab at telnet://192.168.33.247:2323 , but how to make it…
TRS-80GP Debugger: Debugging Adventures and Triumphs
(I’ll even take 9600 7E1) trs80gp comes to the rescue! So I started to read the RS-232 manual to see whats going on. I started to wonder if at some point during the whole thing the driver maybe was hardcoded to go 300. I didn’t want to believe this, since I did move from 300 to 1200 with the Dataphone…
Troubleshooting TRS-80 Serial Communication Woes
(Open the flood gates) ROGER. BCS ARM switch is on So, this is it. The moment we all (Ok, maybe just me) waited for. I’ve spent nights and weekends working to get to this point. I’ve cleaned, tested, retested, POC’d, and got everything tested by itself. Now, it’s time to see all of them work together. SO – This is…
Yes Virginia, there really is a hard drive
(Yes, honest, no more tricks. 😉 ) Let’s just dive in! You might want to get a cup of coffee, this is going to take a while. And, I regret to inform you, there will be math. When I first got the boot disk copied by Ira, it had the following pdrive information – So for anyone that knows me,…