Hi, I just got my first TRS-80. So, knowing nothing at all about them, I'm completely stuck here. ;-) I checked a while around on the internet, and saw, that there is this famous "trs-80 model IV technical reference manual" somewhere, but I didn't find it. Anyone knows where I could download it ? And, I think the best is to use it for CP/M. But where/how to get a cp/m on this box ? cheers & thanks, emanuel

You wouldn't happen to have a link to Kiel's page would you? I have some TRS-80 mod 4 programs on floppy I need to try out and since I sold my last TRS-80 mod 4 to Bayer in Mass a few years ago I don't have a platform to run it on. -> -----Original Message----- -> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Louis Schulman -> Here is what you need to do. Go to David Keil's TRS-80 emulator -> web page. Get the emulator for the -> model IV, and get it running on your PC. -> -> David has disk images for everything you want, including CP/M. -> When you get the emulator running with -> the CP/M disk image, you can make real disks with your PC -> (assuming you have a 5.25" double-density -> drive on your PC). A high density drive can work, but there are -> some limitations and cautions, because the -> tracks are narrower. -> -> This should get you going. Dave has many documents as well.

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Upon the date 01:59 PM 9/29/01 -0700, Mike Ford said something like: --snip-- Oh this is cool, Mike! Back in the 80's I had aspirations of getting one of these systems. (Back in the "Old 80's" as my 8-year-old stepson tells his mom and me when we watch those familiar old 70's/80's shows on Nick-at-Nite and TVLand. [Man, that hurts now <G>]) Anyway, I recall seeing it advertised in other 80's electronics mags (Radio-Electronics and/or Pop. Electronics) at such-and-such prices. Seems a basic system was ca. $295 or something and a setup like yours was more towards $400-$500. More, of course, for additional add-ons. Yes, it was indeed designed to fit in an XT case, which by the late 80's, was a jellybean commodity like Apple ][ clone cases, etc. were then. Not sure how many PT68K's were sold, but I would wager there may have been many hundreds. Ahh yes, Peter Stark is a familiar name from dreaming about getting such a machine. I read all the articles, sent for catalogs and flyers. Still have them around somewhere in my archives. The Motorola uProcessors were and still are my favored achitecture. I learned on my Heath ET-3400 Trainer (Moto 6800) in 1980/81 what a uProcessor really is as opposed to learning about that then-seemingly convoluted Intel thing. Alas, I was not financially able to balance paying a mortgage and household bills and keep enough for buying goodies like this. Seems I spent some of my extra cash both on building my substantial antique radio collection and on girlfriends. Except for my wife now, the decidedly better investment was in the old radios :-) Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/

Maybe they are for a Nambian system? Are they green?

Nambians are always green so that rules that out.