[cctalk] Re: Old Silicon Valley poster

On Mon, 12 Dec 2022, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: By similar logic, an Apple I should sell for $666.66 That is not a TRS-80 Model 3. That is a TRS-80 model 4. Differences include: [VISIBLE] white/beige instead of gray/grey/"Mercedes Silver" {VISIBLE] Nameplate between drives says "Radio Shack TRS-80 MODEL 4 MICROCOMPUTER" (you can get that nameplate on eBay for $12) 80x24 display, revised memory mapping, capable of CP/M; "CP/M Plus" sold at RS. keyboard differences, including control key changes on the motherboard with several variations, (gate array, socket for Z80), rearrangement of connectors, etc.) Bare machine was, indeed, in that price range (I think that it might have been $599), but Radio Shack didn't like selling it that way. This one, and what they usually sold, has two disk drives, and was $1699 (a lot of money for RAM chips and drives) Our college administrators [should all be defenestrated] paid the same price as new model 4's to have Radio Shack upgrade a few dozen model 3's into model 4's (Our student lab-techs were quite capable of swapping drives, and had pleaded to have them purchase BARE model 4's (at the same price), and let the student lab-techs install drives from the model 3's, or buy more drives, thereby doubling the number of available machines) There were people WAITING for a turn to use VisiCalc, Electric Pencil, and Scripsit. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com