Famous & infamous computers of the 70's & 80's.

Could you explain how you get around the incompatibilities of the pre-AT keyboard circuit? Coming into a world of 64K Z80 machines, the PC had an AVERAGE level of innovation. Certainly not enough to be appropriate for a "new standard", but hardly "least". Although I don't AGREE with the original poster on this one, I must defend his terminology. LATER models had sub-designations, and needed them. But the original first model WAS simply called "TRS-80" (FSOT) Later models, despite speculation by users that they would be called "TRS-81" or "TRS-90", in an attempt by Tandy to piggy-back success were then called "TRS-80 [something]", such as TRS-80 Model 3 (FSOT). The name "TRS-80 Model One" never existed until the development of the model 2. OT_analogy: If you were to search through the old archives of the New York Times for the earliest occurrences of the phrases "World War 1" and "World War 2", which one do you think occurred first? ON-Topic_analogy: The phrase "SINGLE-Density" never existed until the marketing people started calling MFM "DOUBLE-Density". -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com