On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Scott Walde wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, PG Manney wrote:
> >> I am looking for
> >> TRS-80 (model I)
> > Do they say "model 1"? (I don't know these at all)
> No. They were originally known (and labelled) as the TRS-80 Microcomputer
> System. They later became known as the model 1 (Although I don't think
> they were ever labelled as such.)
They were simply the TRS-80 Microcomputer System from 3Aug77 to 3Aug79,
when the Model II was released. After that, they were never relabeled,
they were discontinued at the end of 1980 when the FCC RFI rules kicked in
-- but the Model III (successor to the Model One) had been announced on
3Aug80 along with the Color Computer and the Pocket Computer PC-1. (The
Mod 1 and the Mod 2 had nothing in common except Z-80 processors -- the
Mod 2 was a business machine from day one with its 512Kb SSDD 8" floppy
expandable with up to three more in an external bay. Isaac Asimov wrote
his last 150-200 books with one that's on display at the Science Fiction
Shop in Greenwich Village -- I don't cross the Hudson often, but when I do
I touch the machine, it's a shrine in its way -- I'd love to get
permission to format a disk in its drive then bring it over to my own
machine and boot it.) (And of course, that evolved into the Model 16
Xenix system, that started me on my career as a Unix sysadmin since I
stopped being CSR for an RSCC).
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe
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Received on Wed Jun 25 1997 - 21:59:00 BST