The below is very untrue.... again, I don't care. Enrico, if you would like me to
try to help you further, my offer is still open. It's just.... well, what can I
do. You have turned down all my offers to try to help the situation. And, I don't
have a sample of the first TRS-80 made.
Come on.... how much more of this do we all have to take?!?!!?
Cord "ConMan" Coslor
Enrico Tedeschi wrote:
> We all live on conventions. When I tell somebody to switch the light off I
> don't have to trell him/her that I want the light of the roon I am in to be
> switched off and that he has to wlak towards the lgiht switch and that he/she
> has to flick the witch on side or another. I just rely on past experience and
> conventions and I expect the other person to behave in a conventional manner.
>
> When I say that I waould like the very first model of a manufactured product
> I, by convention, mean that I would like a sample of the first model which
> came out (not a prototype), of the first series (not an upgraded and modified
> one) etc. I have no doubts about the historical importance of a sreis one
> TRS-80 with numeric keyboard. It is simply what I wan NOT looking for.
>
> Anyway the matter in contest in NOT just that I have not got what I asked and
> was promised but that the conman did not send it than about TRHEE MONTHS later
> than I send my side of the deal (while swearing that he had sent it but
> unfortunately he could not find the TWO receipts for it) and that even that
> took some help from the keeper of this list to achieve. He (the conman)
> probably relyied on the assumption that being so far away he could could get
> away with it without much trouble. I never suggested that he would try this
> locally as usually this kind of people are cowards and they are driven by
> oppurtunistic motives and reasons.
>
> Regards
>
> enrico
>
> Hotze wrote:
> >
> > >First stop it. Second, if you didn't understand it I believe the comment
> > >was sarcastic IE: we could find you a trs-80 case but since you've been
> > >such a pain it has become highly unlikely.
> > Kind of right. I was saying that if it was REALLY NEEDED and you couldn't
> > ignore a row of 5x4 keys or so on your TRS-80, that there's probably someone
> > who has either a spare case, or a will to trade their keypad-less TRS for
> > yours.
> > >There was no offer to supply one and there was no agreement save for you
> > >trying to instigate one.
> > Exactly. However, seeing as it will make a fellow collector happy, should I
> > stumble across the model you mention, I'll tell you, and probably pay for
> > half or more of the shipping.
> > >A trs-80 with a keypad (one of the earliest options!) is historically
> > >valid. Also historically valid was lower case mod, 2x processor speed up
> > >and several different ones applied to the cassette read. This is an
> > >athoritive statment as I was in the employ for TANDY from 1976 through
> > >1979 and did consulting for another year after that.
> > Exactly. For instance, I'm getting a A2+ from Jeff Kaneko. At first, I
> > just knew that I was getting a II+. That was it. Since then, I've been
> > deligeted to find that it's 64K, has a DA/AD converter, serial cards, a
> > Pocket Rocket language card, etc. installed. I asked for an Apple II+. I'm
> > getting one. Sometimes, it's better than what you wanted, sometimes it's
> > worse, sometimes it's just different.
> > >If you say you wanted the "first trs80" you should have specified one
> > >that must have the 170069A PWB, and no mods/option installed. That
> > >would have gotten you a 4k L1 machine in the first production series
> > >(under serial number 20,000 or so). You would have had to clarify if
> > >serial number greater than 0 or 1 was acceptable. Your lack of
> > >knowledge of RADIO SHACK computers and how they were sold from
> > >introduction is your loss.
> > As well as your apparant lack of flexability, and poor eMail writing skills.
> > In any case, let us "BAD PEOPLE" who "don't care if we've got a conman
> > on our hands" be bad people with a conman on our hands and STOP BITCHING
> > ABOUT IT!!! Listen, you didn't get what you wanted. You did get what you
> > asked for. Cord's been on this list a LOT longer than you have. If we
> > annoy you, then unsubscribe. END OF STORY.
> > Tim D. Hotze
>
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> Enrico Tedeschi, 54 Easthill Drive, Brighton BN41 2FD, UK
> Tel/fax(+01273) 701650 (24 hours) and 0498 692465 (mobile)
> please visit my website at: <http://www.brighton-uk.com>
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