So, this month’s “Name That Ware” was probably a bit too easy :-) Looks like a lot of people got it pretty quickly. I’ll choose a winner when I post next month’s contest.

I chose the Tandy 102 for May’s installment because I happened to be working on it just now. The Tandy 102, as you may recall, is one of the original notebook form-factor “laptops”. I think it’s a great machine.

However, the biggest impediment to useability was the fact that I use a dvorak keyboard layout, so typing on this was very painful for me since I have lost my ability to touch-type on a standard qwerty keyboard. I thought it would be fun to rip out the ROM on my Tandy 102 and fix the keymapping to make the system more useable for me.

Here are the notes on my exploit. They are basically my personal journal that I kept while doing it, augmented with photos. I talk about the whole process, from removing the ROM to disassembling the system, to how I find the right subroutines.

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