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* [https://trs80stuff.net/tpdd/ TpddTool.py] - Python. Runs on anything that has a Python interpreter and the PySerial module.
* [https://trs80stuff.net/tpdd/ TpddTool.py] - Python. Runs on anything that has a Python interpreter and the PySerial module.
* [[TPDD_client:PDD|PDD]] - MS-DOS util by Tim Palmquist <!-- https://www.ordersomewherechaos.com/rosso/fetish/m102/web100/docs/pc-pdd-exe.html -->
* [https://archive.org/download/M100SIG/M100SIG.zip/Lib-09-PERIFERALS%2FPDD210.ZIP PDD] - MS-DOS util by Tim Palmquist
* [[TPDD_client:MacDOS|MacDOS]] - Macintosh (128,512,Plus,SE, etc...) by Travelling Software
* [[LapDOS]] - MS-DOS client by Travelling Software
* [[TPDD_client:MacDOS|MacDOS]] - Macintosh client (128,512,Plus,SE, etc...) by Travelling Software
* [http://www.rakewell.com/xob/xob.shtml DISKMGR] - Cambridge Z88
* [http://www.rakewell.com/xob/xob.shtml DISKMGR] - Cambridge Z88
* [http://www.rakewell.com/xob/xob.shtml DISC-RPB] - Cambridge Z88
* [http://www.rakewell.com/xob/xob.shtml DISC-RPB] - Cambridge Z88

Revision as of 08:28, 31 July 2021

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 by Hugo Ferreyra.

Note, the term DOS does not mean MS-DOS in this context, but the generic term for any disk operating system.

Here are some TPDD clients that run on other systems:

  • TpddTool.py - Python. Runs on anything that has a Python interpreter and the PySerial module.
  • PDD - MS-DOS util by Tim Palmquist
  • LapDOS - MS-DOS client by Travelling Software
  • MacDOS - Macintosh client (128,512,Plus,SE, etc...) by Travelling Software
  • DISKMGR - Cambridge Z88
  • DISC-RPB - Cambridge Z88