On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ben Coakley wrote:
> There's a TRS-80 model 2000 in a local thrift (same one where I got a
> Commodore Plus 4 in its original box today). It's a beautiful machine,
> about the size of the crummy XT clones lying around, with two floppies and
> a CM-1 monitor. What else is hiding in there? It doesn't, perhaps, have
> a hard drive, does it? The case could certainly hold it.
If it has two floppies, the odds are that it doesn't have a hard drive,
though the upgrade was available at a usurous price. Then again, a
2000HD could have a second floppy added, another rare choice. It is
indeed a beautiful machine. It's not PC compatible in hardware, since
there wasn't a standard 16-bit bus until the AT came out a year later and
25% slower. But in my arrogant opinion, it had the best keyboard ever
attached to a MS-DOS computer -- mine was (aside from being my main
telecom machine for years) my favorite terminal to my Model 16 and my
3B1. It also was a nifty serial/parallel converter (with 512k buffer)
between everything else and my MX-80 (512k is about a night's worth of
printing on an early MX-80, after all).
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Sat Aug 02 1997 - 20:52:45 BST