TPDD client:Teeny
"TEENY" is the tiniest "TPDD client" for Tandy and NEC portable computers.
Original Teeny documentation
There are several different ways to bootstrap it on to the portable. Here are a few examples. In all cases below except PDDuino, you will need this serial cable.
Linux, MAC, *BSD, most any Unix
If your host pc is linux or macosx or freebsd or any *nix, you can use "dlplus", which not only has a bootstrap function, but also comes with several TPDD client loaders including TEENY already bundled in.
git clone git@github.com:bkw777/dlplus.git make clean all && sudo make install dl -b=TEENY.100
Windows
First, download the appropriate teeny "loader" for the target machine from https://github.com/bkw777/dlplus/tree/master/clients/teeny
- TEENY for TRS-80 Model 100 & TANDY Model 102
- TEENY for TANDY Model 200
- TEENY for NEC PC-8201 & PC-8300
- TEENY for Olivetti M10
- (There is no version for Kyotronic KC-85)
Next, copy the loader to the portable by the serial port and execute it. There are a few different ways to do this.
This PowerShell script does both at once, the same as the bootstrap function in dlplus above.
Other options for Windows
mComm for Windows includes a bootstrap function, but doesn't work on Windows10. I don't know what versions of Windows it works on or when it stopped working. Note, it runs, it just doesn't actually work, at least not the bootstrap function.
DOS
TEENY.EXE
- Get the file TEENY.EXE from T2005.zip
- Connect the serial cable
- Run TEENY.EXE and follow it's prompts, and it will install TEENY onto the portable.
This only works for Model 100 or 102. TEENY.EXE does include a loader for model 200 also, but it has a typo!