1 Feb
2007
1 Feb
'07
11:47 a.m.
Jay West wrote:
And for the counter-argument, I have a model 1 that I've had from new,
and which has never failed me. COnversely I had nothing but trouble with
the Apple ][, a design which i feel is marginal at best!
I had one failure on my Model 3, the disk cotnroller chip failed in an
odd way. It sometimes failed to geenrate a Data Request signal, with the
result that a new byte would not be loaded by the processor, instead the
disk cotnroller wrote the previous byte again. You got text files with
repeated cheracters in them..
And my Model 4 has blown 1 tantalum capacitor in its life. It carried on
working as the smokke came out, of course.
-tony
Al 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. I have a HUGE softspot in my heart for the TRS-80
Model I, having
purchased a 16k, Level I unit in December of 1978. A unit, I still own
today,
That's the one system I don't have in my collection that I'd
really like
to - a TRS-80 model I with tandy monitor and perhaps the expansion unit.
I never owned one, but a lot of my friends in the late 70's timeframe
did and we always fought about if my Apple ][+ was better than their
TRS80 :)
Jay