Yeah I bought some in the last few months and they work great. In conjunction with REX# or REXCPM it is really perfect - especially REXCPM as you can fully bootstrap and restore the device even when your M100 battery previously ran dry, provided you backed up full memory images to the backpack drive first. The backpack drive fills the same role with REXCPM that onboard flash fills with REX# in this case
Only thing you might need to do is substitute flat-headed screws if you're plugging one into something like KC-85 or PC-8300 where the RS-232 connector has projecting mounting hardware for securing a cable, but flat-headed screws are very cheap Be aware that the provided bootstrap and TPDD client don't yet work on some of the less-common models (M10, for instance, unless you replaced the ROM with the T102-derived one) but regular TELCOM downloads are still fine there. Adding support for more models is likely "just a matter of software" too, since the first-stage bootstrap is just a BASIC program you can edit or replace very easily All in all: this device makes the machine far more usable and doesn't even "dangle". Also Jeff Birt/soigeneris customer support is excellent, questions were answered and a single minor issue were resolved quickly and with a true minimum of hassle On Fri, Jan 28, 2022, 09:53 Joshua O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2022, at 9:20 AM, ~Art <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are these still available? Who would I contact? > > > Hi Art! I got mine from: > https://www.soigeneris.com/tandy-tpdd-2-backpack-drive > > Looks like he still has a few on hand, too! >
