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  • Restoring a Tandy TL/2

    From Atreyu@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 25 10:19:23 2022
    Hi everyone,

    Trying to restore a bare-bones TL/2 that does not Post... it powers on
    with
    the floppy light on but nothing else.

    There appears to be damage to the oscillator/crystal on the board.

    I have someone who will look at this in a few weeks...

    Atreyu

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  • From =?UTF-8?B?Q2FybCDigJxHb29nbGUgU3Vj4@21:1/5 to Atreyu on Mon Nov 21 08:32:15 2022
    On Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 10:20:04 AM UTC-4, Atreyu wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    Trying to restore a bare-bones TL/2 that does not Post... it powers on
    with
    the floppy light on but nothing else.

    There appears to be damage to the oscillator/crystal on the board.

    I have someone who will look at this in a few weeks...

    Atreyu
    TL/2 is a pretty special system, I have one that worked fine after I got working xt kb and cga interfaces connected to it. Have you tried connecting a POST card to it?
    The Tandy 1000s have non-standard floppy connectors so if you don't have an original drive you'll need to mod a cable or cut some pins on the floppy drive to avoid shorting the power pins to ground.

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  • From Atreyu@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 27 22:00:00 2022
    On 21 Nov 22 08:32:15, =?Utf-8?B?Q2Fybcdigjxhb29Nbgugu3Vj4 said the
    following t

    TL/2 is a pretty special system, I have one that worked fine after I
    got
    working xt kb and cga interfaces connected to it. Have you tried
    connecting
    POST card to it?

    I haven't tried a POST card, would need to find one that will work in
    it.

    Atreyu

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