31 Jul
1997
31 Jul
'97
6:20 a.m.
At 08:23 PM 7/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
TRS-80 Model 100 Manuals:
These are photocopies of the originals but are bound together like real
manuals. Service Manual, Owner's Manual and 2 little Quick Reference
manuals.
Shipping is $2.25 book rate.
If these are still available, I'd love to take them off your hands! (I have
three m100's and only 1 owner's manual; none of the others.) Thanks!
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sinasohn(a)crl.com that none but madmen know."
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31 Jul
31 Jul
2:51 p.m.
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Uncle Roger wrote:
At 08:23 PM 7/26/97 -0700, you wrote:
I have a book - The TRS-80 Model 100 Portable Computer - by David A. Lien.
Radio Shack Cat. No. 26-3819 Pub. CompuSoft Publishing C. 1983
Half the book is on Basic programming on the 100 the other half about the
100 and it's software.
Anybody who wants it - Let me know. You get to pay shipping anywhere -
book rate is cheapest.
BC
TRS-80 Model 100 Manuals:
These are photocopies of the originals but are bound together like real
manuals. Service Manual, Owner's Manual and 2 little Quick Reference
manuals.
Shipping is $2.25 book rate.
If these are still available, I'd love to take them off your hands! (I have
three m100's and only 1 owner's manual; none of the others.) Thanks! 
3:57 p.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Info
I just had a call from a friend of mine, Brian Mumford, who did some
software work for the TRS-80 computers back in the late 70's and early
80's. He had a company called Mumford Micro Systems and besides
software, also published at least one book; the one I have is called
"Inside Level II, A Programmer's Guiide to the TRS-80 ROMS". I told him
I was also collecting historical info on the various computers and what
went along with them. He is willing to help however he can. He also
turned my on to another guy active with TRS stuff, Dave Lagerquist.
Dave took over as editor-in-chief of CLOAD Magazine in July 1980. On
top of that, Dave lives here in Santa Barbara, so another part of my
project will be compiling a history of CLOAD magazine. So if any of you
TRS people have any questions for either Brian or Dave, pass them
along. I'll be calling Dave probably next week after Fiesta (a Santa
Barbara tradition) is over.
7:25 p.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Info
Well, this is sort of a general question, and I'm sure somebody here can
answer it, but it fits with the subject line, at least:
There's a TRS-80 model 2000 in a local thrift (same one where I got a
Commodore Plus 4 in its original box today). It's a beautiful machine,
about the size of the crummy XT clones lying around, with two floppies and
a CM-1 monitor. What else is hiding in there? It doesn't, perhaps, have
a hard drive, does it? The case could certainly hold it.
Thanks,
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Ben Coakley CBEL: Xavier OH bcoakley(a)teleport.com
http://www.math.grin.edu/~coakley
1 Aug
1 Aug
1:52 a.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Info
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ben Coakley wrote:
There's a TRS-80 model 2000 in a local thrift
(same one where I got a
Commodore Plus 4 in its original box today). It's a beautiful machine,
about the size of the crummy XT clones lying around, with two floppies and
a CM-1 monitor. What else is hiding in there? It doesn't, perhaps, have
a hard drive, does it? The case could certainly hold it.
That machine is an 80186! (Nope, that's not a typo.) It's really not
'IBM' compatible, although it runs MS-DOS 2. That machine obviously must
have the color card, if it comes with the CM-1 (I'd love one of those.)
The 2k sported several big enhancements over the PC. The faster 186, 720k
floppies (DSQD), 600x400x16colors, full 16 bit expansion slots. Overall
it's a really cool machine. That's probably why it didn't survive.
Some had a hard drive. If it was factory installed, the nameplate should
read 'Model 2000HD.' You might also look for any labelling on the back.
The HD controller might have some sort of stickers on it. (The cards are
the long, 1/2" high metal strips on the back.)
Ben Coakley CBEL: Xavier OH
bcoakley(a)teleport.com
ttfn
srw
2 Aug
2 Aug
1:52 p.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Info
On Fri, 1 Aug 1997, Ben Coakley wrote:
There's a TRS-80 model 2000 in a local thrift
(same one where I got a
Commodore Plus 4 in its original box today). It's a beautiful machine,
about the size of the crummy XT clones lying around, with two floppies and
a CM-1 monitor. What else is hiding in there? It doesn't, perhaps, have
a hard drive, does it? The case could certainly hold it.
If it has two floppies, the odds are that it doesn't have a hard drive,
though the upgrade was available at a usurous price. Then again, a
2000HD could have a second floppy added, another rare choice. It is
indeed a beautiful machine. It's not PC compatible in hardware, since
there wasn't a standard 16-bit bus until the AT came out a year later and
25% slower. But in my arrogant opinion, it had the best keyboard ever
attached to a MS-DOS computer -- mine was (aside from being my main
telecom machine for years) my favorite terminal to my Model 16 and my
3B1. It also was a nifty serial/parallel converter (with 512k buffer)
between everything else and my MX-80 (512k is about a night's worth of
printing on an early MX-80, after all).
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
11:37 a.m.
New subject: TRS-80 Info
On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Marvin wrote:
went along with them. He is willing to help however
he can. He also
turned my on to another guy active with TRS stuff, Dave Lagerquist.
Dave took over as editor-in-chief of CLOAD Magazine in July 1980. On
top of that, Dave lives here in Santa Barbara, so another part of my
project will be compiling a history of CLOAD magazine. So if any of you
TRS people have any questions for either Brian or Dave, pass them
Along with "CLOAD", don't neglect "Chromasette" and
"SilverSoft". Those
were the cassette and disk magazines for the Color Computer and the PC
respectively. Good stuff.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor
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