7 Jun
2002
7 Jun
'02
4:57 p.m.
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Louis Florit wrote:
While I was in the process of taking it apart to clean
it up, I saw two
butterfly nuts with a piece of what seemed a cut off telephone cable, 2
leads.
I asked on the trs80 newgroup and they mentioned that it could be a now
little known networking card for a system, Corvus Omninet. This would
explain the diskless condition of the TRS-80, as it would load up its
files over the network to do anything interesting besides load up the
basic rom.
Dang, I knew I should have bought one of those when I had the chance ;)
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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