20 Jul
1998
20 Jul
'98
7:36 p.m.
Lawrence Walker wrote:
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Nope, wrong attribute. I can only wish that I was as knowledgeable as you
and the writer on theTRS80 m.II.
Hey Ward, I see you have a home page. What about hosting a Model II, m.16
6000 page. It would be the only one among a plethora of other TRS80 pages
which Always have a gap in their coverage of Models 1,3,4 , CoCo !,2.3.100,200
Tandy 1000 etc.,etc. The model II orphans would bless you. You're certainly
knowledgeable enough about it coming from a RS background. Tandy only has a
minimal bit of stuff on it re mod.IIs and there's no other source that I've
been able to find.
To clearify, a
Model II requires an additional CPU card. This is a MC68000 CPU
with a daughter card or two that may contain from 128K to 1 Meg of RAM. It
depends. There were several memory card configurations. I have some from
the 128K to the 1 Meg varity. The really rare ones are the 4 Meg memory cards.
There was never a Tandy 4 Meg card. Bob Snapp had boards to take a 16
or 6000 up to 8 Meg, but the memory management permitted only a max of
1 Meg "user" RAM -- the rest could be used as RAM disk, permitting a
/dev/swap far larger and faster than Tandy hardware. It was damned
impressive to see his stuff at the Tangent conference in Fort Worth in
1986, 15 terminals (plus console) filePro databases faster than a stock
system could with three users.