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I loved my M100's. I carried them to class to take notes. Since the keys were clicky and were a distraction to all the others in class, I put tiny rubber bands I got from a friend who worked at an orthodontist's office under each keycap to mute the clicking. At the end of each class i would dump my noted off to the PDD-1 disk drive. And it all ran off AA batteries. I eventually collected the entire catalog of M100 software that Radio Shack sold by hitting sidewalk sales at RS stores all over Dallas and Ft Worth. Plus Half Priced Books at that time had store in Richardson, Tx at the corner of Central Expressway (US75) and Beltline Rd called Half Priced Software of course. Someone had sold them a ton of those brown vinyl books with the tapes and ROMs in them. The last couple of pieces I collected from Software Etc in Allen, Tx. Software Etc also occasionally received pieces of M100 hardware that I picked up. In the last days of DOS I when I was an electrical contactor I had written an inventory and chargout package that ran on the M100 and used the bar code wand then downloaded the text file to my PC where a bridge program I wrote in compiled basic interfaced the data into my Friday! dbaseII runtime and into Star Accounting Partner II running on my Tandy 1000.
I sold almost all of my vintage collection when we were downsizing homes. I shipped out all three of my M100s, all 6 of my NeXT Dimension Cubes, my BeBox, my two Canon objectstations, some of my Sgi collection except for two Indy's, my 5 Daystar Genesis MP800's plus a 20' container of Sun, Sgi from Iris Indigo to Origin 200 to Visual Workstations, Mac's, Mac clones, Apple II, NeXTstations, Amigas. What I had left over was eventually scrapped when I couldn't find anyone who wanted it.
James