TRS-80 Questions

From: Lawrence Walker <lwalker_at_mail.interlog.com>
Date: Tue Feb 24 05:09:29 1998

On 24 Feb 98 at 21:27, Tony Duell wrote:

> >
> > Here's a couple more for the TRS knowledgeable.
> > from a TRS novice.
> > 1. Among the various TRS stuff I picked up recently was a
> > TRS-80 monitor. It has a similiar connector coming out
> > the front as the Model II. Was this the for the std. M.1
> > and M.3 ?
>
> The Model 3 has a built-in monitor - it's an all-in-one case containing
> the monitor, keyboard, CPU board and up to 2 drives.
>
> The model 1 monitor is a converted portable TV. The input cable ends in a
> 5-pin DIN plug - like an IBM PC keyboard connector. Is that like your
> monitor?
>
 Yup. Its beginning to look like I'm now also collecting TRS. Damn.
Have to get rid of the couch. :^[

> > 2. Included with a TRS CoCo 1 I picked up last summer was
> > an adapter plugged into the cass.port. a label "TotalCommunications"
> > on one side and "Telelearning" on the other. Into this was plugged
> > another M/M adapter labelled " RS232 Gender Changer" Was this for
> > hooking up a fdd and/or modem ?
>
> My guess, and it's only a guess is that this is some kind of kludge to
> allow you to CLOAD (and maybe CSAVE) programs to/from an RS232 device. It
> may have been part of one of those classroom 'networks' where the teacher
> loaded a program onto his machine, all the pupils typed CLOAD, the
> teacher typed CSAVE and the program was downloaded onto all the pupils'
> machines.
>
 Now that seems like it has possibilities . And it takes up so
little room !
 
thanks again tony
ciao larry
lwalkerN0spaM_at_interlog.com
Received on Tue Feb 24 1998 - 05:09:29 GMT