24 Apr
2001
24 Apr
'01
8:09 p.m.
hi<
"R. D. Davis" <rdd(a)smart.net> said:
Greetings,
A while back, I purchased a TRS-80 Model III with 48K of memory, but I
can't access the BASIC interpreter... that is, if it has one as I was
thinking it did. Do I need to use a boot floppy in order to do anything
with this machine?
If you start up without a boot disk, it should prompt you with:
MEMORY SIZE?
answer with a suitable figure - say 32767 - and it should start in
BASIC.
You can get TRS-DOS and LDOS (much better!) disk images from various web
sites - try www.kjal.com/trs80/
Getting the images onto TRS-80 disks requires a PC capable of single
density 40 track disks though...
Also, weren't some TRS-80 systems able to use a
hard drive?
Yep...
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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb(a)dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!