Great to see there is an active community around these! I had one when I was .. 14? maybe? I remember typing in some BASIC and saving/loading from cassette. Simple usable machine. IIRC journalists of the day liked the full travel keyboard and could file their copy down a phone line. But wow, sluggish by today's standards! We must've been more patient back in the day. :-)
@@whatskenmaking Great stuff Ken ! This reminds me of that time I got my hands on an old KayPro 2 portable. I didn't have a boot disk for it, and thus had not idea how to do anything with it at all. Many years later I learned that it needed a CP/M boot floppy. Alas, I was a 16 year old kid at the time in the mid 90s, so it was barely a loss at the time. To be honest, I have no idea at all what happened to that system which I randomly obtained one day... I guess it randomly disappeared. QUESTION FOR YOU : Where are the videos which are shown in the intro montage ? I am curious about the ones with the microscope and the beard ! Were these from an older channel of yours ?? Thanks !
Thanks! The M100 community is pretty active, so definitely hop on the mailing list if you’re interested in these devices. There’s lots of really sharp people on there.
I remember running CP/M on my Amstrad NC100. It has a similar form factor to the Tandy, but doesn't require hardware hacks, since it uses a Z80 CPU. All you need is an SRAM card.
Very nice - the M10 is on my list to collect. I don’t think the REXCPM chip is compatible with the M10, but it would be worth reaching out to Steve Adolph on the ordering page and finding out. Good luck!
Anyway the form factor is perfect for mobile computing: real keyboard, 80 cols x 10 lines display (graphic would be ok), terminal / Xterminal & linux, THAT would be my computer on the go!
So CPM would not run on a regular REX? You need to buy another chip? It looks great but if you forked already 40 dollars for the regular REX, you need another 60 dollars to get CPM running on the device, and that seems to be quite a bummer sadly.
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Great to see there is an active community around these!
I had one when I was .. 14? maybe? I remember typing in some BASIC and saving/loading from cassette. Simple usable machine. IIRC journalists of the day liked the full travel keyboard and could file their copy down a phone line. But wow, sluggish by today's standards! We must've been more patient back in the day. :-)
Thanks for the demo. Very intriguing.
Great video! Glad you popped across my feed today. Subscribed!
Awesome! Thank you!
@@whatskenmaking Great stuff Ken ! This reminds me of that time I got my hands on an old KayPro 2 portable. I didn't have a boot disk for it, and thus had not idea how to do anything with it at all. Many years later I learned that it needed a CP/M boot floppy. Alas, I was a 16 year old kid at the time in the mid 90s, so it was barely a loss at the time. To be honest, I have no idea at all what happened to that system which I randomly obtained one day... I guess it randomly disappeared. QUESTION FOR YOU : Where are the videos which are shown in the intro montage ? I am curious about the ones with the microscope and the beard ! Were these from an older channel of yours ?? Thanks !
Thank you for making this video. I've been looking at this for a while, but there hasn't been any videos about it. Subbed.
Thanks! The M100 community is pretty active, so definitely hop on the mailing list if you’re interested in these devices. There’s lots of really sharp people on there.
I would love to get a REX in my 102, just have a dial a rom in it atm, and a backpack
I remember running CP/M on my Amstrad NC100. It has a similar form factor to the Tandy, but doesn't require hardware hacks, since it uses a Z80 CPU. All you need is an SRAM card.
Very nice - I’ve had a couple of people mention that I should check out some of the early Amstrads, so perhaps one of these days 😁
Awesome channel !!
Excellent video...Thanks!
So I have the Olivetti M10 - should be the same - so I think I'll have to try this also ... CP/M 4 ever ;-)
Thank you for sharing this video 👍
Very nice - the M10 is on my list to collect. I don’t think the REXCPM chip is compatible with the M10, but it would be worth reaching out to Steve Adolph on the ordering page and finding out. Good luck!
Anyway the form factor is perfect for mobile computing: real keyboard, 80 cols x 10 lines display (graphic would be ok), terminal / Xterminal & linux, THAT would be my computer on the go!
Sorry, I missed which system you’re referring to
How much is this worth?
So CPM would not run on a regular REX? You need to buy another chip? It looks great but if you forked already 40 dollars for the regular REX, you need another 60 dollars to get CPM running on the device, and that seems to be quite a bummer sadly.
That's correct - you need the SRAM chip that's on the REXCPM