Ksarul

Or you could just get one of those industrial-sized, 6" binders. It should be a while before he could fill one of those up, although @sparky is wiley, so he'll come up with some useful and original way to fill it up quickly. LOLOL

Was your manual the final version? ISTR that he put out additions with new routines (and additional manual pages) every quarter while he supported it. That was the main reason it came in a small binder--updates to the manual were easy that way.

As always, your signs are outstanding @Crazy Climber! @iliketurtlesis really happy with the new additions to his collection. . .

Myarc XB-II on the Geneve is definiely a derivative of XB-II for the TI, using the 2.12 code base. It is also somewhat buggier than the TI version, as some programs that work on the TI crash on the Geneve version--and vice versa. I did some extensive testing of this when I first received my Geneve in late 1987, as one of my friends in the Errorfree group at that time (Manfred Kraus) had the TI version, and we were both curious about it.

Michael Becker made clones of both the HX5102 and the PHP1300. I have both.

Please post them Klaus--I think my scans were destroyed in a disk crash a while back.

The BASIC in the 99/8 came in two flavors. The earliest prototypes used Armadillo BASIC. I don't think any machines with it installed made it into the wild, although I do have to check the BASIC chips on one of my spare motherboards to verify that. All later versions came with XB-II as part of the standard configuration--there were never iterations that had plain TI BASIC as part of the mix. Between the documents that Klaus and I found/scanned/put online (most of the WHT documents came from my set, Klaus found a few more), there isn't much else related to the 99/8 known to survive. I do have to check one additional binder I have to verify that I scanned everything in it (it may contain the source code to XB-II though, so I do need to do that soon). I own two complete 99/8 machines, one with the card-edge side port connector and the other with the Centronics side port (there were two main revisions to the motherboard, and I have both--the card-edge type came later). I also have half a dozen loose motherboards missing a lot of the major components, only one of which is mostly complete (and which may have the early Armadillo BASIC on it). Other things made for the 99/8 include: 128K memory card 512K memory card RS-232 card with a 99/8 DSR Flat Cable Armadillo Interface (for Card Edge motherboards) Round Cable Armadillo Interface (for Centronics motherboards) Hybrid Armadillo Interface (Round Cable version with 64K of additional CPU RAM installed) I have all of these cards with the exception of the Flat Cable Armadillo Interface, although my Hybrid board is missing the memory section components (they were never installed). I also built an adapter to use the Round Cable Armadillo Interface with a Card Edge console.

Nanos are up again too. . .

Thank you! The Product 359 source listings pique my interest as well. I've been hunting for the GPL Simulator and the rest of the development system for a long time--but I haven't found any good leads yet, unfortunately.

BTW, the Amnion library was maintained after the demise of the IUG by Guy Stefan-Romano until his death. New programs were being added to it up until that point. I have most of the disks from the library as originals received directly from him, although I wasn't able to complete my set before his passing. The last set I received were from an order I made shortly before his passing--an order kindly fulfilled by his life partner in the aftermath (and the accompanying letter letting me know he was shutting the Amnion Helpline down was also how I found out Guy was ill in the first place).

Bromosel is from a TI site in Europe that gathered a lot of European magazine (and other) programs into one location. The Altman fairware library was maintained by several different user's groups over time. BCS would be the Boston Computer Society library. Tigercub would be Tips from the Tigercub, which showed up in a lot of disks he sent out--and which appeared in many different newsletters as well.

I know there is a version of the EPROM for the Foundation 128K/512K card (I've seen that one in action and I think I even have it installed in one of the two Foundation cards I own), but I've never seen one for the Rave GrandRAM.

The last consoles made in the US were the ones TI made for Control Data. The last dates on those are in early May, 1984. I've got a couple of regular TI consoles made in March and early April too.

I personally stay with the NiCD batteries, as the circuit was originally set up for them, but others have used NiMH batteries without problems. All of the boards I build have NiCD batteries installed.

I think there were a total of five issues of this one. Bill Gaskill brought it to my attention about 20 years ago.

Actually, this board will already work with Alkalines, LiON, NiCd, or NiMH. All are valid, configurable options. Alkalines and LiON disable the charge circuit to protect the batteries, while the other two use the charge circuit. No revision C necessary.

These signs are definitely worth it. I have one of the earlier batch as well, and it is beautiful!

Thanks for persevering with this! Digital archaeology can be seriously difficult at times--but the end result is definitely worth it.

I have about 25 tubes of the 1052911-X HexBus chips, as I wanted to make sure they didn't disappear into the ether. The surplus house that had them had no idea what they could be used for. I was actually looking at them yesterday, as I was digging through my wall of chips looking for some other parts to restock my active project supplies.

Is this a variant of the RAM Trap in the technician's servicing manual? It might be nice to get a copy of the ROM code saved for posterity (and to protect from bit-rot) and some pictures of the board/a schematic set. Did these get built as a group, or did the technicians build their own?

So who did hit the magic number? We're past it now. . .

I'm glad you had fun building it!

I had fun scanning the book in random chunks today. Here are the PDF files, just assemble them by number, followed by the affiliated letter (in order) to get the whole book. As I was working the scans today, it became obvious that the code and the pictures duplicate the programs on all 9 of the TM series Pyuuta tapes, as modified for the Mk II. The last four pages are a loose insert that contains the instructions for all nine G-BASIC programs. Everything is in Japanese, but these programs should work unmodified on a US Tutor as well as the Mk II. Pyuuta-2.pdf Pyuuta-2a.pdf Pyuuta-2b.pdf Pyuuta-2c.pdf Pyuuta-2d.pdf Pyuuta-2e.pdf Pyuuta-2f.pdf Pyuuta-2g.pdf Pyuuta-2h.pdf Pyuuta-2i.pdf Pyuuta-2j.pdf Pyuuta-2k.pdf Pyuuta-3.pdf Pyuuta-4 (Game Instructions).pdf

I recently picked up a book for the Pyuuta Mk-II. For those interested in Tomy Tutor machines, it actually appears to include rewritten versions of the G-BASIC programs on the various early Tomy Pyuuta cassette tapes to make them compatible with the Mk II. This would also make them compatible with the Tomy Tutor, the somewhat neglected cousin of our TI-99/4A. I included a scan of the cover here. I'll try to scan the rest of the book in the near future. Pyuuta-2.pdf

It almost looks like a weird take on Galaxian. . .