/vr/ - Retro Games

Remember the anon with the TRS-80 model 100 in the last thread?

I finished the repairs last week.

The big problems were:
>preowners removed 10 function keys and did some other shit, also rebranded it
>4 badly leaked capacitors in the power supply
>leaked NiCad battery

I recently gotten a Olivetti M10 with QWERTZ layout, the same preowners didn't attempt to 'rebrand' it like they did to the model 100. Unfortunately the keyboard was damaged because it wasn't in a protective case, the spacebar is mechanically broken and '.' keytop is gone and the switch for it is damaged.
So i decided to swap all function keys, NiCad battery (didn't leaked, still works), 8kbyte RAM module over to my model 100. I also replaced the leaked capacitors on both computers which didn't seem to effect the operation besides that the corrosion could get worse.

The standard ROM of the modemless M100 is different from the american ones with the modem, it also had a standard 27C256 pinout. I realized this after making a adapter by measuring the pinout against the option ROM, i was quite confused why it didn't started with the adapter.
So i made a personalized version of the american ROM (for better compatibility) with:
>Y2K fixed
>reduced key repeat delay
>customized keyboard matrix

About the absent emblem and backsticker, i didn't liked the idea of making a copy which can be mistook for the original. So i made my own out of printed paper and some transparent plastic from some snapped CD slimcase. The backsticker is just a reworked copy of the original but it's just black on white paper instead of black on shiny silver surface.

Now i'm thinking of reprinting the quick reference (mainly for BASIC), i did not decided yet how to mark this one as 'not original'. Maybe i add "UNOFFICIAL REPRINT:" with the date on the title page.