J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
> IIRC my family had a model 1 upgraded from a 4K level I basic
> unit to a 16k level II with numeric keypad; during the upgrade my
> dad also sprung for a lowercase mod (this had to have been around
> late 1978). We were waiting for an Expansion Interface and disk
> unit (original Shugart single density drive), which were on
> backorder and didn't arrive for _months_. I seem to remember one
> of the advantages of buying a later Model 1 was that the
> keyboard, while unable to remove the keycaps for cleaning,
> actually _solved_ the keybounce problem. My current model 1 has
> the old type keyboard and continues to bounce keys (no keypad);
> rather annoying.
The keybounce on my original Mod 1 came and went. The pattern seemed
to be that every time I turned the keyboard upside down and shook out
a month's or more worth of cigarette ashes, the bounce came back.
> Wasn't there a Dennis Kitz speedup mod published in an old
> 80 Micro article? He wrote a _bunch_ of articles containing
> useful mods to the model 1... really an amazing guy. I wonder
> what happened to him.
Dennis is still alive and well, these days mostly concentrating on
music. <
http://www.maltedmedia.com/> is his homepage. Some months
(I guess about a year now), he was looking for a home for the
original "Custom TRS-80", the one used for all of the projects in
the book of that name and his 80-Micro columns. It seems the Boston
Computer Museum wasn't interested, I don't know what has happened
since.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Sun Apr 12 1998 - 21:58:01 BST