TRS-80 Model 100 (was Re: Convergent Technologies workSlate)

From: Scott McLauchlan <scott_at_isd.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Thu Oct 8 18:20:31 1998

At 00:08 8/10/98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com> wrote:
>Tony Duell wrote:
>>
>> > thrown in. The NEC and Olivetti versions depended on external modems
>>
>> I have the Olivetti version - an M10, and the PCB certainly has positions
>> for the internal modem components. Now, it would be quite normal for a UK
>> machine not to have the modem (our CCITT tones are different from Bell
>> tones at 300 baud, and there are different approval requirements), so I
>> assumed that the US model had the modem fitted.
>
>I have never read a report or review of an M-10 with an internal modem.
>And the magazines that covered the Model 100 _did_ review the Olivetti
>and NEC products, but of course those magazines were rather more than
>three moves ago (per Poor Richard, three removes equals one fire), but
>I do recall that they all had the same Kyocera main board with minor
>changes per customer.

The NEC PC-8300 (updated version of the PC-8201A, with more RAM and a few
improvements in ROM, such as support for XMODEM in TELCOM) had an 300 baud
internal modem as an option (only available in the US). Although my
PC-8300 doesn't have a modem, it does have a single loose A4 page in the
manual describing how to get Wall Street stock prices on-line.

Regards,

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