On 4/24/17, 4:55 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Peter Cetinski via cctalk" <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >> On Apr 24, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Peter Cetinski <p...@pski.net> wrote: >> >>> >>> Just picked up a TRS-80 Model 12, and it boot to the "insert disk >>> prompt" ... Yay! >>> >>> Jim >> >> >> You can find the MC68000 board set (you¹ll need a CPU board and at >>least one memory board) on eBay quite often. In most cases, it will be >>the Model 16 6Mhz board which will allow you to run TRS-XENIX 1.x. If >>you¹re lucky, you¹ll find the Model 6000 8Mhz board which will allow you >>to run Xenix 3.2. Finding a card cage is the hard part. These are >>extremely rare but do pop up from time to time. There is another option >>called the Hans-02 and 03 adapters created by Hans Rietveld which is a >>modern replacement for the card cage. You can find them on Ian Mavric¹s >>site. >> >> http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/ >><http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/> > >Correction: You¹d want the Hans 03 and 04 > >In regards to the keyboard, the later Model 12/16B/6000 keyboards are >hard to find. The Model II keyboard is more common. You can easily use >the Model II/16 keyboard with these by creating a new 5pin DIN cable and >switching a few of the keyboard input pins and swapping the gender of the >connector. In the ³spare² sectors on the xenix 3.2 media there is information on hooking a Tandy 2000? Keyboard to a 16/6000 I forget which disk it is on :( was told about it years ago by the xenix specialist at a RS computer center store
