4 Aug
2012
4 Aug
'12
10:30 a.m.
Time Magazine sets the record straight on the microcomputer history forgot,
the TRS-80 Model 1 <http://techland.time.com/2012/08/03/trs-80/>.
I'm pleased to see my Dick Smith System 80 site linked to the article.
One mistake though. You needed at least 32k for disk operations on a
TRS-80 Model 1, not 16k (-:
Did you? You nee3ded an expansio nitnerface to prvide the disk
controller and that unit had sockets for up to 32K more RAM (so a 32K or
48K machine total), but I thought TRS-DOS would boot in 16K. OF course
user memeory was then so limited that almost nothign would run.
When I upgrded to disks I filled all the sockets in the EI (4116s were
relatively cheap by then) so I never tried it with anythiog other than 48K.
-tony