I have a flyer I picked up for it back in the days when Tandy was selling these. The
picture shows a desk with what looks like a terminal of some sort built into the top. To
one side is a large box which appears to have 2 8" floppy drives where you'd find
the drawers of the desk. The specs are listed as 8080 cpu, 48k memory, 24x80 video
display, 2 dual sided diskette drives, extended version of Dartmouth BASIC, ADOS Disk
Operating System all for $9,995.00. Fortran compiler for $300.00 and several printer
options are also listed. Some other details listed but that's the main part. I
picked this up at a Radio Shack Computer Center IIRC. I believe they dropped it about the
time they came out with the Model II.
David
Fred Cisin <cisin(a)xenosoft.com> wrote:
It was NOT a predecessor to the TRS-80, nor a model 2/12/16.
While Radio Shack was peddling the TRS-80,
Tandy was trying to peddle some "business" "mini-computer"s.
IIRC, it was built into a desk. I don't know where you had
to go to actually SEE one (I don't think that even the Radio
Shack "computer center"s had them), but Tandy did have a
catalog for them. I have no idea what the specs were.
LATER, Radio Shack came out with the model 2 (Z80, with 8" drives,
and CP/M capable through third parties, such as Pickles and Trout
or Lifeboat).
Then the models 12 and 16 (Z80 AND 68000!)
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Joe R. wrote:
I wonder if they meant a model 16?
Joe
At 05:58 PM 8/10/04 -0400, you wrote:
While reading through an old (1979) book, I came
across a reference to a
Tandy 10 system (complete with picture), as an example of
"turnkey
systems". Judging from the date of publication, I presume this is some
precursor to the TRS-80, but I have not been able to dig up any more info
on it. Has anyone else ever heard of such a computer before, and could you
share your info, please?
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>Jam the computer...trash every lethal machine in the land! -- Timothy Leary