Osborne 1 for $1000?

From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Thu Apr 23 22:39:58 1998

Doug Yowza wrote:
>
> Speaking of CP/M boxen for sale, I just stopped by Halted in Sunnyvale and
> they have a few very clean CP/M machines (with plenty of docs and
> software) for $50 each:
>
> * TRS-80 Mod 3 w/printer and no docs (that I could see).

A TRS-80 Model 3 runs CP/M only with extensive modifications. The
easiest such modification was the Model 4 upgrade several years
later entailing a motherboard replacement (and no, you didn't get to
keep the old parts).

> * TRS-80 Mod 4 w/complete docs.

That one runs CP/M straight, preferably the 3.0 version with a boot
disk for it.
-- 
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 Thu Apr 23 1998 - 22:39:58 BST

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