18 Sep
1999
18 Sep
'99
11:47 a.m.
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
Dropped by a hamfest today. Got a DD11-DK, a RX11
board,
and a Macintosh LC.
Good score on the RX11!
Also got my newest and smallest toy yet!
It looks like a large calculator, and it's a little weatherbeaten, but
it's a computer. It's a silver obling piece badges as a "TRS-80 Pocket
Computer". It seems to undestand a subset of BASIC, it has a printer/cassette
interface (as a seperate unit, and the printer ribbon is shot), and acts
like any other TRS-80 I've met so far.
I bought one of those new when I was in high school. I should still have the
documentation...*somewhere*. It was at least eight moves ago for me. But I do
remember having seen the docs in a pile of books about a year ago, so I guess
I'll start digging!
The dialect of BASIC is somewhat limited, but it is functional and useful for
simple tasks.
-Dave McGuire