(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”…
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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…
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…
Serial Communication: Raspberry Pi to Lantronix EDS1100
(Did we, did we really?) (Whisper on)it’s been too easy (Whisper off) I’m just as impatient as you are to get this going. I see there is data on the drive, and I want to complete Raspberry Pi & Lantronix EDS1100 and be able to bring this journey to a close. Having it booted and not able to do anything…
Reviving My MEGADISK – A Journey with DG’s EMU
Last stop California, I promise (As much as I love the ocean, I love my Atlantic Ocean spot) Get on with it, won’t you Tuc?! Sorry, no tricking, yes, we have one more diversion until I get back to the actual RACS III system. But it’s for a good reason, I promise. Given the fact there is only one real…
Exploring TRS-80 Virtualization and File Management Tools
Is that Arizona? (Quite a long left turn) I feel like that bunny (No, not Barbie Benton) It was really great to be able to use these images as virtual drives in the Model I, but given I had problems getting the 2nd drive to be physical (I think it was probably a terminating resistor issue, but I contacted Gotek…
Revolutionizing TRS-80: The Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator Journey
Left turn at Albuquerque (That’s whats up doc) Yet another diversion So I apologize dear reader, but after Tandy Assembly I had another diversion. I’d been reading about people having another device besides the FreHD that would allow them to be able to have a disk drive attached to the system. As part of my care package from Ira I…
Reviving Vintage Drives: A Journey into TRS-80 Disk Restoration
Back to sureality (That’s a surreal reality if you weren’t sure) We gotta DRIVE this home So the next step is getting the drives online. I was actually very disconcerted when I found the drives in the storage unit. I found 2 disk drives without covers and with power supplies, and 2 drives without any sort of power supply (Or,…