Ooooh.

The QI has arrived in the UK, I'd better get on with reverting the TR-80!!!

I cried victory too soon... Even if I managed to format a 1.6MB floppy without any issues, the HDADFS module seems to be unstable... I powered-off my computer and launched the previously created module again, but when trying to access the menu, it freezes. I will check again when I will have my ZID...

HigashiJun wrote: ↑Sun Dec 03, 2023 10:01 am The mouse has finally reached me...


Mouse.JPG

Haven't seen one of those shapes, I think it is a later one isn't it? Mine are both very wedgy.

stephen_usher wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 11:50 am Does sound a tad annoying.

Sadly yes.

Having spoken to the provider of the QI, he's told me that I'll have to in order for it to correctly revert to 16k and so it will work with the QI.

The original EI was easy, just a few small mods and it's good to go with a 64kb base machine.

Halfway through cleaning the very yellow keys!

All work at last and soon they'll all be clean

Sighs... So it looks like in order to fully revert the TRS-80 to fully revert to 16K I will have to undo some of the wiring changes for the 64KB upgrade. I can leave the changes that modify the sockets so they have the correct voltages for the 4164's rather than 4116's, but there are RAS and address...

While waiting for the A5000 mouse (and a solder tip for a repair), I worked a bit on my A3000. 2modules.JPG The ZIDEFS IDE podule is fitted on top of the MIDI podule. There is a link from pin 10 of IC33 to pin 3 of the SK3 connector, in order to make 2 podules work at the same time. But when I boot...

HigashiJun wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 6:43 am

rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 1:37 pm So a bit like this:


TRS_Mem.jpeg


Some of my neatest work the green wires

I reject the orange wire as it was already installed when I got the machine

I've seen worse...

Your repair looks not bad at all.

Thanks, it's one of my better mods.

HigashiJun wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:03 am

rubber_jonnie wrote: ↑Fri Dec 01, 2023 5:04 pm The mystery continues

Hope for you it will be soon over...

Me too.

Woo hoo, the Quinnterface is in the air on the way from Australia