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From: Peter A. Cohen <peterco@eff.org>
Subject: Re: junk
Organization: ON Technology, Inc.
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a2
     <1992Mar19.121511.1@vax.sonoma.edu> <1992Mar20.023034.18939@ncsu.edu>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1992 17:17:35 GMT



>should apply.  Just remember that every manager is not the same.  Don't
hold
>it against RS if you have had problems with a particular manager.

As a matter of fact, if you've had a problem, report it to the manager or
the district manager.  My experience has been pretty good with this. 
Tandy is really trying to change it's image.

- Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
From: xinu@NeoSoft.com (Daryel Nance)
Subject: Re: A20 Handler on 1000RLX
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 13:47:55 GMT
Summary: A20 Handler on 1000RLX syntax for himem.sys command.

In article <1992Apr12.210617.1@vax.sonoma.edu>, levinson@vax.sonoma.edu writes:
> This letter      is in response to a user who asked if it is possible to
> address the high memory on a Tandy 1000 RLX.  The answer is YES!!  After
> looking at a Tandy 1000 RLX, I noticed that the new ones out of the box come
> with MSDOS 5.0.  When it boots up, the message appears:
> A20 Handler Number 2
>  
From the MS-DOS User's Guide and Reference pp.610-611 concerning the
HIMEM.SYS command line in your CONFIG.SYS file:
The line device=himem.sys should be modified to be ..
device=himem.sys /machine:ps2     ...or
device=himem.sys /machine:2
Page 611 of the manual lists 14 different A20 handlers for specific 
machine types.
Don't forget to FOLLOW the device=himem.sys /machine:ps2  line with
dos=high  ..otherwisw dos will never be loaded into high memory.
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From: jackw@gator.rn.com (Jack Wiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: DR DOS on 1000 TX drive letter question...
Date: 10 Apr 92 16:18:33 GMT
Article-I.D.: gator.mHw1iB1w161w
Organization: The Gator Public Access Unix Site

I'm not familiar with DRDOS but the best way in MSDOS is to use the DRIVPARM 
statement in the config.sys file.  Perhaps the manual has something to say 
about that???  Is there a similar or same command?


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From: severach@indian.cps.msu.edu (Chris Severance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Need info on Model 1 ascii transfer
Keywords: what keywords
Date: 6 Apr 92 15:40:38 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University, CPS Department


  I have been asked to do a file transfer of which I don't have any idea how to
do.  I will need to
transfer a text file from a RS Model I to an IBM PC.  I have not seen the
Model I to be used nor have I used a model 1 for many years.  I don't know how to
use one or what capabilities that they have.
  The solution I thought up was to use a serial port?  The questions I have are:

1.  Does the Model 1 have a serial port?  Is it easy to put data to it?  What
are the commands or will I need a program?  Is the program something anyone would
have?

2.  Is there a better method for transfer but because I don't own a RS, I'd never
think of it?  How about an IBM program that will read the data directly?  (I believe
it is on floppy disk, guess=5.25")

3.  What didn't I ask that I should be warned of?  Compatibility, word processor
formats, ASCII, ... .

-CJS
A Model I bonehead. (The bugs should be fixed when model 2 of me is introduced.)
From: stephan@kub.nl (Stephan Raaijmakers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: 1100FD =>1100HD?
Keywords: harddisk,1100FD
Date: 13 Apr 92 10:48:05 GMT
Reply-To: stephan@kub.nl
Organization: KUB, The Netherlands

Is it possible to add a harddisk to the
1100FD (with a minimal amount of effort)?
Can a SCSI-port be added, and, if not, 
can the serial port be used?

Thanks in advance for your response.

-- 
Stephan Raaijmakers
Tilburg University
The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
From: tandy@uiuc.edu (Jeff Cortez)
Subject: Re: Tandy archive
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:02:58 GMT


>|Just a note aboout the archive I created a while back for the 16/6000
>|Xenix system.
>|
>|When it was created there was little interest and I became quite discouraged.
>|Since so little attention was given to it and I had problems finding 
>|any code elsewere on the net, I went to my quicker booting Atari ST.
>|I will start using my Xenix system if I start seeing more action on the
>|net.
>|
>|Basicialy what I am saying is "USE THE ARCHIVE!", put stuff* on it.

I understand your fustration.  A year and half ago, I started up the 
Tandy 100 archive with the belief that since there was alot of software
out there for this computer, if I created a common ground for people to
exchange programs which was free of charge (Unlike Compu-serve) there would
be a outpouring of programs.  Unfortunately, this has not proved to be 
the case.  At the beginning, I did receive alot of email from users stating
how much they appreciated it and how they had all this software which they
would send to be shortly, but if you look at the additions file in the
archive you will notice that this has not occurred.  I would like to 
thank those who have sent files since it is because of you that I did not
give up on the archive, but at this time, I am sorry to say that I must
announce that the archive will be shutting down when I graduate in May.
I don't know the exact date yet, but since there is no one locally interested
in the archive besides myself, I will be telling the adminstrators to
delete the directory when they delete my account.

Thanks to all who have offered to store the files, but unless you desire
to operate the archive yourself, there really is no need to store the
files.  I will be keeping a copy of all the files on a IBM disk, so that
if in the future I do get the oportunity to start up the archive again,
I will be able to.


Jeff Cortez
Maintainer of the Tandy 100 Archives
tandy@uiuc.edu

p.s.  To any of you out there who do still have software which you would
      like to add to the archive, send it.  The archive WILL operate until
      the day of shutdown.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: adingus@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Aaron T Dingus)
Subject: Joystick Help
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:29:58 GMT

I am in need of some DOS programming help-

I have an old TANDY 1000EX i8088.  I have
been trying to recieve information from the
built-in joystick ports.

Does anybody out there know what DOS/BIOS
interrupts/function calls I should use, and
what registers should be sent/recieved?

I am trying to implement this on DOS 2.x and 3.x.

The function calls may not be particular to
the TANDY, but I am not sure.

The OS must communicate with them somehow, because they
do work and all.

Any input would be GREATLY appreeciated, I have been stuck on
this for some time.

Please respond via E-Mail.
-- 
Aaron T. Dingus
Professional Athelete
The Ohio State Univeristy
adingus@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
From: fax0552@uoft02.utoledo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Adding a new drive
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:08:12 EST
Organization: University of Toledo, Computer Services

In article <1992Apr15.163147.6700@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v116r8ac@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Chris Nasipak) writes:
> 
> I'm currently working with a Tandy 1000 TL/2.  I have (installed at the 
> store) a 40-meg hard drive, one 720-k 3.5" floppy, and one 360k 5.25" floppy.
> I am interested in upgrading one floppy to a 1.44m 3.5".  However, there 
> seems to be a rather strange connection to the 3.5" drive - no power 
> connection, just a cable running from the 5.25" drive (which does have both
> a power and a data cable connected to the board.).  When I connect
> the new drive to this cable, however, the computer won't turn on.  
> Anyone have any suggestions as to how I can make this thing work?
> 
> Thanks muchly,
> Chris.
> 
There is NO support for the 1.44 meg floppy in the onboard floppy controller
ont the 1000/2.  Sorry, no way short of a floppy controller and disable
the built in controller.
John Stahl  - Toledo, OH




> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Do you really feel like    |         Not Croaker           |Somewhere else, the
> arguing with a can of      |                               |tea is getting cold.
> deoderant that registers   | v116r8ac@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu |Come on - we've got
> nine on the Richter Scale? |   nasipak@acsu.buffalo.edu    | work to do.
>         --- Ace            |                               |  --- Doctor Who
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "I wasn't expecting the ReichsInspektor General."  -- General Strasser
> "No One expects the Reichsinspektor General." -- Doctor Who, TimeWyrm:Exodus
From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Need info on Model 1 ascii transfer
Date: 13 Apr 92 18:12:28 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <1992Apr8.152201.786@math.ufl.edu> X3212KAI%oak.decnet@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>>  I have been asked to do a file transfer of which I don't have any idea how to
>>do.  I will need to
>>transfer a text file from a RS Model I to an IBM PC.  I have not seen the
>>Model I to be used nor have I used a model 1 for many years.

The easiest thing to do is call 1-800-MISOSYS and order their TRSCROSS
program.  It runs on the IBM (or compatible) and can read, write and
format TRS-80 disks.  One caveat, though, it only works with double density
disks.  This will be a problem if your Model 1 doesn't have a double
density adaptor.

                                  Scott Toenniessen
                                  spt@acsu.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
Subject: Re: Tandy 6000 - lpr question
Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
Distribution: na
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 1992 21:16:08 GMT
Keywords: filter / xenix 3.02

In <1992Mar31.141621.14173@eskimo.celestial.com> mann@eskimo.celestial.com (Tom Mann) writes:

>I have a minor problem with my tandy 6000 running xenix 3.02.
>I am trying to connect a printer that requires both a newline
>and a carriage return. The lpr program (or something called by
>lpr) sends only a newline. I have noticed an entry in /etc/default/lpd
>which is "FILTER=NO" - does this imply that a filter can be installed
>somewhere? If so, where and what do I put in the FILTER= line?
>Any help much appreciated.
>-- 
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>|Tom "Old" Mann	 KD9NL/7 Kirkland, Wash.                   		      |
>|									      |
>| Since I am a self-employed mechanic, the opinions given are those of my     |

One easy way to handle this is to put your own version of lpr in
the path ahead of the Xenix lpr.  This program might look
something like:

:
# /usr/local/bin/lpr
sed 's/$/^M/' $* | /usr/bin/lpr
exit $?

Where ^M is really a control-m (carriage return).  You can get
this in the shell script using the vi editor by pressing ^V^M
where the control-v tells vi to take the next character
literally.

Incidentally this same technique can be used to strip extraneous
CR/LF line endings from Tandy (RealWorld) accounting programs.

Bill
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From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy bashing revisted
Date: 16 Apr 92 03:37:03 GMT
Organization: UB

In article <9417@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> bobb@vice.ICO.TEK.COM (Bob Beauchaine) writes:
>
>  Now here's the question:  What reason, other than an attempt to
>  force PC illiterates to buy a Tandy cable, would Tandy have for
>  reversing the init line?  I can picture it quite clearly:
>

Well, let's see if I'm right on this one......

You indicate that Tandy changed the Centronics standard, but I'm
thinking it was IBM who changed the standard.  Tandy's printer port
has used that configuration since 1978 (or 79?) when the TRS-80 Model 1
expansion interface came out.  The IBM port has been in use since 1981(?)
when the PC came out.  Tandy continued using their 1978 port to maintain
compatablity for their model 1,2,3,4,..... users who were upgrading.

I guess the question is, who changed the original standard, Tandy or
IBM.  Possibly this signal was unspecified in the original port
and Tandy just picked an unused line for it which the industry later
decided to ignore.  This happened to Tandy before.  The original Shugart
disk drive interface allowed for up to three single sided drives.  Tandy
wanted to allow use of 4 drives so they picked an unused line for selecting
drive 4.  The industry later decided to use that same line to select the
second side of a double sided drive.  Hence the Model 1 hardware could use
either 4 single sided drives or 3 double sided drives.  Tandy did change
their floppy interface in later computers.  Changing the printer interface
after the IBM came out was probably not feasible as Tandy already had
an installed base of several hundred THOUSAND machines (wouldn't users have
SCREAMED if Tandy had decided to put a different printer port in Model
III's made after the PC came out?  Imagine having several III's in the
office, some of which needed a different printer cable from the others.
How about upgrading to the Model 4.  I can hear the comments "They changed the
printer cable to get an extra 15 bucks outta me".  Same with the 1000,
2000, 3000, etc.).  So Tandy is somewhat stuck between a rock and a hard
place.  They can change their port to make new buyers happy; or, leave it
the same and keep their installed base happy.

                        Scott Toenniessen
                        spt@acsu.buffalo.edu


PS: I still find it amazing to think that MS-DOS/PC-DOS didn't have
    a built in help command for almost 10 YEARS after Radio Shack
    put one in Model 2 TRSDOS.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
From: martin@iadpsa.safe.ia.gov (	Perry Martin		)
Subject: Re: Hidden files on 6000 3.2 release
Organization: Iowa Department of Public Safety
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 15:41:43 GMT

In article <-31022@nemesis> uhclem@nemesis.UUCP writes:
>
>In a previous note I mentioned that there were "hidden" files in the
>3.2 release.
>
  [ instructions and list omitted ]

>I recommend you try wof.  It is a game you will find nowhere else (for
>reasons that should become apparent at once).
>
Any chance the source for this is available somewhere?  I'd forgotten
about it, and my 6K's are pretty much moth-balled now.

>
>We were sorta hoping someone out there would find this stuff and let the
>world know.  Oh well.   So do enjoy.
>
Bob Snapp (Snappware in Cincinatti, if memory serves) revealed this on
the Compu$erve Tangent SIG when 3.2 was released, and gave the directions
for extracting them.  I also seem to remember finding a file of yours
that discussed replacing the 68000 with a 68010 hidden on a disk, maybe
the 3.2 Dev Sys?

>Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>

--Perry Martin                              | martin@iadpsa.safe.ia.gov
Iowa Department of Public Safety            |   ...!uunet!iadpsa!martin
From: rmitchel@BBN.COM (Rob Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Upgrading (sigh) old Tandy 1000?
Date: 17 Apr 1992 16:00:29 GMT
Organization: Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge MA
Distribution: world
Reply-To: rmitchel@BBN.COM (Rob Mitchell)
NNTP-Posting-Host: bbn.com

    Well, I wasn't going to do this, but mail-order prices for 386
    motherboards are quite attrative.  So ...

    ... should I attempt to upgrade old Tandy 1000 2-360K floppy
    system with mail-order 386 motherboard, WD hardrive controller,
    generic IDE drive, VGA board, and VGA monitor (with RAM and
    VRAM as needed) or just trash/donate the machine and purchase
    one mail-order?

    Any and all opinions requested.  Advice needed, too.

    TIA!



Rob Mitchell                  (rmitchel@bbn.com)                  617-873-4041
Macintosh and Unix Software Engineer
These opinions are mine and mine only.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy bashing revisted
From: Thomas.Cicirelli@alpha.bgsu.edu (Thomas Cicirelli)
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:42:16 GMT
Organization: The day begins at midnight - Fox BBS


 > From: spt@acsu.buffalo.edu (Scott P. Toenniessen)
 > Date: 16 Apr 92 03:37:03 GMT
 > You indicate that Tandy changed the Centronics standard,
 > but I'm thinking it was IBM who changed the standard.  Tandy's
 > printer port
 > has used that configuration since 1978 (or 79?) when the
 > TRS-80 Model 1
 > expansion interface came out.  The IBM port has been in
 > use since 1981(?)
 > when the PC came out.  Tandy continued using their 1978
 > port to maintain
 > compatablity for their model 1,2,3,4,..... users who were
 > upgrading.

 
Plus, the first printer Tandy sold, the Line Printer One, was
really a Centronics model with a Tandy nameplate.  I got one.
It still works.
 
 > PS: I still find it amazing to think that MS-DOS/PC-DOS
 > didn't have a built in help command for almost 10 YEARS after Radio
 > Shack put one in Model 2 TRSDOS.
 
CP/M had "Help" too, didn't it? 

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From: uhclem@nemesis.UUCP
Date: 05 Apr 92 12:29 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: 5.25" 360K Disk Drive Misaligned.
Message-ID: <-31020@nemesis>
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Nf-From: nemesis.UUCP!uhclem    Apr  5 12:29:00 1992


<>
[0]I'm having a problem with the 5.25" 360K B: drive in my Tandy 1000SX.  It 
[0]appears to be out-of-alignment.  Sometimes when a disk is put in, a 
[0]message comes up:
[0]  "Sector not found"
[0]even with disks known to be good.  This occurs intermittantly.

Things to try first:  (1) clean the drive heads well with a cotton swab and
cleaning agent.  Don't just try the cleaning diskette.  This is pretty easy
on the 5.25" drives (you will have to remove it from the computer to
do this.)  (2) make sure the drive is terminated correctly.  If your machine
is second-hand, it could be cabled or strapped incorrectly by the previous
owner.  The last drive on the cable must be terminated.  The inner drive (or
drives) must not.  (3) remove and re-insert the floppy interface cable at the
CPU board end and at the drives.  Make sure you get the CPU connector plugged
back in correctly. (4) Clean any accumulated dust on the drive circuitry AND
on and around the disk controller circuitry on the main logic board. 
(5) Format a diskette in this drive and try to do a diskcopy of it on another
system.  It may be the other system that created the disks that you are trying
to read is out of alignment, not this one.   A software title you bought at
the store is not a good test of alignment.   The duplication machines can
and usually are further out of alignment than your drives at home.

[0]I'm wondering if there is any [free/pd/share-ware] software out there to 
[0]assist in diagnosing/alining my disk drive.
[0]P.S. If anyone has a non-software (and non-oscilloscope) solution, I'd 
[0]appreciate hearing from you as well.

There is a digital diagnostic diskette, but it is worthless.  It simply
reports pass/fail.  Anything beyond that is estimation.   A proper alignment
disk is a special (non-cheap) disk and it requires a good 'scope to use.
For the full test you also need a 1F 2F pattern generator, although older
disk controllers (I/II/III/4/4P/4D/16/COCO) can generate these (sorry IBM PC
world, you can't).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
From: xinu@NeoSoft.com (Daryel Nance)
Subject: Re: GCC BINARIES needed for 6000
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 05:42:33 GMT
Summary: 6000/16 software files
Keywords: binaries gcc tandy 6000 needed help_now

In article <guido.703293817@pv1783.vincent.iastate.edu>, guido@iastate.edu (Brian P Walenz) writes:
> 	Not much else to say...
> 	On a similar note (lack of software), I looked at plains.nodak.edu
> today, and WOW!  There's so much there!  (This is sarcasm, guys and gals.)
> Maybe I'm too hasty, but there has got to be more publicly distributable
> software out there for these machines than this!  I'd be happy to port some
Brian (et.al.) I have scarffed and pillaged in the same boat for jewels
for my herd of 6000's ... I am running 3.2 w/full development system (that
takes 9 1.2 meg floppies to tar - dosn't leave a lot of the 15 meg h.d.for
much else ..you have about 4 meg left. Anyway, I've got games: Kingdom of
Larn, and Rogue the mainframe classics..and ascii PacMan (Yes it really
works!), snake, (and thanks to Frank Durda..)Wheel of Fortune, Startrek
games VTrek and Warp, and the multiplayer Phatasia, and several others. I
got the Magpie BBS software package which was ported to the T6K, the
xcmalt termial program (xmodem,ascii,and ymodem) also kermit. The compress
utility w/ the 512k process patch for the kernal, etc.etc.etc. I *WILL*
have this machine on line for public access after Taxes and Easter!! I
will be more than willing to dump what is in public domain in *The
Archive*, but I've not set this box up to tie into the net..I'm accessing
through a local BBS, to get File Transfer Priviledge will cost $30 clams a
month ('tis not bad for the system access that comes with it, but I just
don't need anything beyond net access and ftp.) I'm still working on the
problem of how to get some of this stuff to you guys.. please feel free to
email me for info.. Just don't dump your T6000 in the meantime out of
frustration!! It is a *REAL* computer!! Daryel Nance xinu@NeoSoft.com.
-- 
/usr/bbs/usr/xinu/daryel.nance
From: uhclem@nemesis.UUCP
Date: 06 Apr 92 22:41 CDT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Binary file splitting.
Message-ID: <-31019@nemesis>