After getting the TP-10 printer working with the Model 100, I set out to improve the banner program I wrote for the PC-8.
Category: Vintage Computing
I found a great printer for the Model 100, the TP-10. This printer is thermal and uses 4 1/8″ paper. It has a serial connection and I’ve updated the banner program as an example of it’s capabilities.
I found the pocket computer model on eBay that I wanted as a kid, but couldn’t get. I repaired the printer cassette interface for it, and wrote a banner program using only 964 bytes of RAM.
The Model 100 was arguably the first commercially successful laptop computer. I recently acquired one and recapped it to be able to experiment with its capabilties.
Using a PC-2 pocket computer to print a QSL card was an interesting project to test using BASIC and a 4 color plotter.
I took my Radio Shack PC-2 (Sharp PC-1500) out of the archive and restored a Sharp CE-150 plotter / cassette interface. I was able to connect the PC-2 to a TNC and print out APRS traffic.