12 Apr
1998
12 Apr
'98
9:58 p.m.
J. Maynard Gelinas wrote:
IIRC my family had a model 1 upgraded from a 4K
level I basic
unit to a 16k level II with numeric keypad; during the upgrade my
dad also sprung for a lowercase mod (this had to have been around
late 1978). We were waiting for an Expansion Interface and disk
unit (original Shugart single density drive), which were on
backorder and didn't arrive for _months_. I seem to remember one
of the advantages of buying a later Model 1 was that the
keyboard, while unable to remove the keycaps for cleaning,
actually _solved_ the keybounce problem. My current model 1 has
the old type keyboard and continues to bounce keys (no keypad);
rather annoying.
The keybounce on my original Mod 1 came and went. The pattern seemed
to be that every time I turned the keyboard upside down and shook out
a month's or more worth of cigarette ashes, the bounce came back.
Wasn't there a Dennis Kitz speedup mod
published in an old
80 Micro article? He wrote a _bunch_ of articles containing
useful mods to the model 1... really an amazing guy. I wonder
what happened to him.
Dennis is still alive and well, these days mostly concentrating on
music. <http://www.maltedmedia.com/> is his homepage. Some months
(I guess about a year now), he was looking for a home for the
original "Custom TRS-80", the one used for all of the projects in
the book of that name and his 80-Micro columns. It seems the Boston
Computer Museum wasn't interested, I don't know what has happened
since.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_