...beige (off white) TRS-80 model 4, 3 floppy drives,
I am not sure what you're asking. All original M4's had a white case (You
could upgrad an M3 to an M4 by replacing the keyboard and CPU board, in
that case (!) you ended up with a grey machine).
All M4 disk controllers (AFAIK) support 4 drives. To have 3 internal
drives is unusual, but possible. The 'stock' configuration was up to 2
full-height drives internally-mounted, and 2 externals.
amber monitor, silver plate under reset button that
An amber monitor is uncommon, but not that uncommon. Original M4s had a
green CRT, M3s that were covnerted kept the white CRT. But there was at
least one company advertising in Byte and/or 80micro that sold an amber
CRT that would drop right in.
says Stevens 128k. Some passer by suggested it had
I asusme that's 128K RAM. Radio Shack supplied 128K machines and upgrade
kits, but there were 3rd party ones too (The official price was high, to
say the least -- the kit consisted of 8 64K bit RAMs and a PAL chip
IIRC). Maybe some 3rd party kits came iwth an ID button that mentioned
the vendor's name
something to do with a technical college in Hoboken,
NJ, another meanderer said they only used DECs and
such. All 3 floppies were scanned for a boot floppy
apparently (blink...blink...blink). Pristine condition.
Are you sure? I thought M4s only checked drive 0 for a boot disk (but
once booted, they will look for a given file on each drive in turn unless
you specifiy a drive).
-tony