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 TPDD client with a real TPDD1 or TPDD2 drive, 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 client with a TPDD emulator, you need a normal Model_T_Serial_Cable.
| DOS's (TPDD clients) for Model T computers | |
|---|---|
| Floppy | The official DOS that came with the TPDD1 |
| Flopy2 | The official DOS that came with the TPDD2 |
| TS-DOS | Commercial DOS from Travelling Software The most popular DOS. Now free. |
| POWR-DOS / POWR-DISK | An early commercial DOS from Acroatix Some unique features |
| Tiny | A tiny DOS by Tracey Allen that originally came with POWR-DOS |
| Teeny | A slightly smaller version of Tiny by Ron Wiesen The smallest DOS |
| DSKMGR | An early alternative DOS One of the only things available for Kyotronic KC-85 and Olivetti M-10 |
| Disk+ | Commercial DOS option ROM from PCSG |
| Disk Power | Commercial DOS by Hugo Ferreyra |
| TPDD clients that run on other systems | ||
|---|---|---|
| TpddTool.py | Python | Runs on anything that has a Python interpreter and the PySerial module |
| pdd.sh | Bash | Runs on anything that has bash. (ok also needs stty and mkfifo) |
| TPDDClient | Windows | Kurt McCullum |
| PDD210 | MS-DOS | Tim Palmquist |
| PDD2 | MS-DOS | TPDD2 client by Brian Woodcox |
| PDD1 | MS-DOS | TPDD1 client by BJ Gleason - modified from PDD2 |
| LapDOS | MS-DOS | Travelling Software |
| MacDOS | Macintosh 128,512,Plus,SE, etc... | Travelling Software |
| DISCMGR | Cambridge Z88 | Originally supplied with the drive on an eprom cartridge. (link says DISKMGR but it's really DISCMGR) |
| DISC-RPB | Cambridge Z88 | |
| MacTrans | HyperCard | TPDD client implemented as Macintosh HyperCard stack ??? (dead link) |
| TDISK | NEC PC-8401 "Starlet" | Probably also the PC-8501? Possbly even other CP/M machines? |
To run MS-DOS apps on Linux with DOS's COM1 connected to Linux's /dev/ttyUSB0, and DOS's C: drive mounted on the current directory:
dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" .
Example:
wget https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS/PDD210.ZIP unzip PDD210.ZIP dosbox -c "serial1 directserial realport:ttyUSB0" . C:>pdd