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I have a Tandy coco that won't boot. It just shows garbage on the screen. I think it's the rom but I don't know. Can someone tell me what it is?
No, but here is a link to the service manual:
Another guy says to re-seat the G.I.M.E. chip and gives some other possible fixes here:
Sun May 21 2017 11:35:31 AM EDT from alex222 @ UncensoredI have a Tandy coco that won't boot. It just shows garbage on the screen. I think it's the rom but I don't know. Can someone tell me what it is?
http://biosrhythm.com/?page_id=1453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PRiQq5VZs
Zeddyfox! Looks cool. Might need to get the old TS-1000 working again.
This probably does not go here, but thought I might share it:
Tron via ssh :-)
I know we lost doors, but thought it might give some folks a sense of nostalgia. Not from the - "oh this is immediately cool" factor, but more from the - "Oh, crap... nobody else is here and I have to invite someone via some other means to play" factor.
Not saying the second way of looking at things is bad. In fact I feel it is good as it does not come from (at least at first) from an - "I want to exploit you for data and money" - angle. It would seem to come from a - "I built something that I think would be fun" - angle. Something that would suggest altruism (kinda like the good folks here at Uncensored).
Hm... I wonder if there's a community of Citadelians who might take interest in creating door applications for terminal amusement.
Zeddyfox! Looks cool. Might need to get the old TS-1000 working again.
A lot of this retro stuff makes me want to find an old Sinclair just to experience it once. My "really bad computer" from that era was a TI-99/4A so it's probably just as awful.
I guess most of it is just nostalgia. I don't miss my TI or feel nostalgic about it. I do feel that way about my S-100 CP/M system, but since that type of system was usually experienced through a terminal it's easily reproduced.
If I were a serious instructor of software engineering, I would embrace these old machines (perhaps via emulator) and use them for instruction.
Because I think they're second to nothing else out there for learning how to do this stuff well.
Fri Jan 05 2018 08:41:04 AM EST from fleeb @ Uncensored
Hm... I wonder if there's a community of Citadelians who might take interest in creating door applications for terminal amusement.
Hope that comes with good life insurance...
Mon Jan 08 2018 05:29:58 PM EST from IGnatius T Foobar @ UncensoredA lot of this retro stuff makes me want to find an old Sinclair just to experience it once. My "really bad computer" from that era was a TI-99/4A so it's probably just as awful.
I guess most of it is just nostalgia. I don't miss my TI or feel nostalgic about it. I do feel that way about my S-100 CP/M system, but since that type of system was usually experienced through a terminal it's easily reproduced.
I owned both. Actually liked running the 99 better (real keyboard, sound, sprites), but there was something about a sub $50 computer that just had to be experienced.
If you run the android favor of phone, you can get ZedEx and get a good feel for it (pretty realistic - apart from waiting 6 minutes to load a 16Kb program from tape), and experiencing the ram pack wobble. Even the membrane super loaded up (multiple keyword per button) keyboard is available for your torture.
I owned both. Actually liked running the 99 better (real keyboard,
sound, sprites), but there was something about a sub $50 computer
that just had to be experienced.
I moved to the '99 from a big clunky S-100 machine running CP/M. Sometimes I went back to the S-100 because the '99 just wasn't robust enough. Later I got a Commodore 64 which carried all of my computing needs for years.
Sinclair looks interesting now but at the time I just sort of wrote it off because in my mind I had a "real computer". Some might not be aware that it earned a reputation as a "doorstop" not simply because they looked like doorstops -- at one time, Commodore ran a promotion where they gave a $100 credit towards the purchase of a Commodore 64 if you sent them any old computer; they ended up with a warehouse full of Sinclairs, and they really did end up using them around the office as doorstops.
Nowadays all of our computers are powerful and robust ... and we miss "real" computers. :(
Trivia bit of the day:
Most oldsters remember "dBase-II" from Ashton-Tate.
There was never a dBase-I; the "II" bit was made up by George Tate to give the name some additional gravitas. Some people know that. What fewer know is that there was never anyone named "Ashton" -- that was also made up by George Tate to give the company name some additional gravitas.
Gosh I miss my S-100.