TRS-80 Model 2000

From: Claude <claudew_at_funcow.com>
Date: Tue Aug 22 20:55:22 2000

Hi

1st time post.

Picked this up for $10. No monitor or keyboard. 2 Floppies. No cracks or
scratches but "yellowed" case. Very little info on net about this one.
Seems that was one of the rare computers to use an actual 80186 chip.

Seems to "wake up" fine after nice cleaning and checking all
connectors...

Tried to boot from some 360k flopies with 2.11 DOS on it. No luck.
Drives look alive but don't seek for long and stop. Suspect this needs
some sort of special DOS or disk format...???

DIN type connector for monitor. Anybody know the pinout or specs? What
about the keyboard? Most TRS-80 don't even mention this model
2000...Anybody wanna speculate on how rare this is?

Started collecting/restoring a few months back. 35, college degree in
electronics, worked all my life in electronics and computers. Had access
to several college systems when I was young as 14 - neighboor was
university teacher and gave me access to a bunch of systems like PLATO
(CDC) and several others at local university...

Claude
Received on Tue Aug 22 2000 - 20:55:22 BST