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The Tandy Portable Disk Drive came with a "dos" called "floppy", on the utility disk.<br>
The Tandy Portable Disk Drive (cat no. 26-3808 aka "TPDD1") came with a dos called "FLOPPY".<br>
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.<br>
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.<br>
You can't make a copy of the disk from a download, nor with a normal floppy drive, not even and old 720K drive, even though the TPDD uses normal 720K (NOT 1.44M!) 3.5" disks.<br>
 
You need the original utility disk, or a physical copy that was made in a real TPDD drive using the backup utility from the utility disk.<br>
There are copies of the TPDD1 utility disk for sale here:<br>
Some copies are for sale here:<br>
https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD1-disk-26-3808/p/141211027/category=28313042
https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD1-disk-26-3808/p/141211027/category=28313042
You can also re-create a TPDD1 utility disk using pdd.sh which includes a disk image of the TPDD1 utility disk.<br>
https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh
And here is the source for the labels used on the ArcadeShopper disks if you want to print more of those for your own backup disks:<br>
https://github.com/bkw777/disk_labels
The glabel files include links to the exact matching label stock to print that label on.

Revision as of 22:23, 3 September 2021

The Tandy Portable Disk Drive (cat no. 26-3808 aka "TPDD1") came with a dos called "FLOPPY".
The only way to install it is to bootstrap using the utility disk that came with the drive.

There are copies of the TPDD1 utility disk for sale here:
https://www.arcadeshopper.com/wp/?page_id=11#!/TPDD1-disk-26-3808/p/141211027/category=28313042

You can also re-create a TPDD1 utility disk using pdd.sh which includes a disk image of the TPDD1 utility disk.
https://github.com/bkw777/pdd.sh

And here is the source for the labels used on the ArcadeShopper disks if you want to print more of those for your own backup disks:
https://github.com/bkw777/disk_labels

The glabel files include links to the exact matching label stock to print that label on.