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To use a TPDD server / TPDD emulator, you need a different special serial cable.   
To use a TPDD server / TPDD emulator, you need a different special serial cable.   
:[[Model_100_102_200_600_Serial_Cable]]
:[[Model_T_Serial_Cable]]


Here are some of the major dos's for Model T computers:
Here are some of the major dos's for Model T computers:

Revision as of 10:51, 30 August 2020

A "TPDD client", also usually called a dos*, is a program the 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 comes with the drive, or a new cable that has the same electronics inside.

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 / TPDD emulator, you need a different special serial cable.

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 Travelling Software's DOS
  • Teeny The smallest DOS
  • DSKMGR An early alternative dos that works like standard floppy/flopy2, also available for Kyotronic KC-85 and Olivetti M-10.
  • Power-DOS / Power-Disk An early alternative dos that is more full-featured and composed of a collection of several utilities, almost like a normal disk operating system like cp/m or ms-dos.
  • Disk+ Commercial dos option-rom from PCSG.

(Not THE DOS as in MS-DOS, A dos, as in, a disk operating system, because there are several).