TRS-80 Model I

Jay West wrote: That must have been a short argument. I used both a lot in high school. The model I was unreliable in the extreme. The model III's were much better in that regard. Level I BASIC that was the low-end option of the Model I (and only option originally) was a slightly improved Palo Alto Tiny BASIC. Mechanically and esthetically, the Apple II case was vastly superior. For I/O, the Apple was vastly superior. For graphics, the Apple was vastly superior. Both had MS BASIC, which was a wash, but the various TRS-80 DOS's were much better than Apple's DOS (at least as of 3.3, which was the last version I used). Nevertheless, the Z80 is nearer and dearer to me than the 6502. I still have the source code for a couple of the asm programs that I wrote for the TRS-80. One was a fancy pong, the other was a symbolic differentiator I did as a calculus project. Mathematica is slightly ;-) more powerful, but mine came first.