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The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a "dos" called "flopy2", on the utility disk.<br>
The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a dos called "FLOPPY", on the utility disk. This is a different version than what's on the TPDD1 Utility Disk.<br>
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.<br>
 
You can't make a copy of the disk from a download, nor with a normal floppy drive, not even and old 720K drive, even though the TPDD uses normal 720K (NOT 1.44M!) 3.5" disks.<br>
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.
You need the original utility disk, or a physical copy that was made in a real TPDD drive using the backup utility from the utility disk.<br>
 
Some copies are for sale here:<br>
You can buy copies of the TPDD2 Utility Disk from [https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD2-disk-26-3814/p/141211028/category=28313042 ArcadeShopper]
https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD2-disk-26-3814/p/141211028/category=28313042
 
You can also re-create a TPDD2 Utility Disk using a TPDD2 drive, [[TPDD_client:PDD210|PDD210]], and this disk image: [[File:26-3814.ZIP]]
 
wget https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS/PDD210.ZIP
unzip PDD210.ZIP
wget http://tandy.wiki/images/1/16/26-3814.ZIP
unzip 26-3814.ZIP
dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" .
C:>pdd /FORMAT
C:>pdd /WRITE 26-3814.PDD

Revision as of 15:16, 7 September 2021

The Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2 came with a dos called "FLOPPY", on the utility disk. This is a different version than what's on the TPDD1 Utility Disk.

The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.

You can buy copies of the TPDD2 Utility Disk from ArcadeShopper

You can also re-create a TPDD2 Utility Disk using a TPDD2 drive, PDD210, and this disk image: File:26-3814.ZIP 

wget https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS/PDD210.ZIP
unzip PDD210.ZIP
wget http://tandy.wiki/images/1/16/26-3814.ZIP
unzip 26-3814.ZIP
dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" .
C:>pdd /FORMAT
C:>pdd /WRITE 26-3814.PDD
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