TPDD client
A "TPDD client", also usually called a DOS(note), is software that runs on the portable and can read and write files on a Tandy Portable Disk Drive or Tandy Portable Disk Drive 2, or any of their rebadged versions like Brother FB-100 and Purple Computing disk drive, or any "TPDD server", software which runs on a pc and emulates a TPDD.
To use a real TPDD or TPDD2, you need the special cable that came with the drive, or a new cable that has the same electronics inside.
- TPDD#Cable
- https://github.com/bkw777/TPDD_Cable
- https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/Special-serial-cable-for-Tandy-Portable-Disk-Drive-and-Tandy-Portable-Disk-Drive-2/p/144969001/category=28313042
To use a TPDD server aka emulator, you need a normal Model_T_Serial_Cable.
Here are some of the major DOS's for Model T computers:
- floppy - The official DOS that came with the TPDD
- flopy2 - The official DOS that came with the TPDD2
- TS-DOS - Commercial DOS from Travelling Software. Now free.
- Tiny - A tiny DOS
- Teeny - An even smaller version of Tiny, and the smallest DOS
- DSKMGR - An early alternative DOS. One of the only things available for Kyotronic KC-85 and Olivetti M-10.
- POWR-DOS / POWR-DISK - An early DOS from Acroatix.
- Disk+ - Commercial DOS option ROM from PCSG.
- Disk Power - Commercial DOS from Ultrasoft Innovations. Requires original distribution disk to install.
Note, the term DOS does not mean MS-DOS in this context, but the generic term for any disk operating system.