TRS-80 Model 100 (was Re: Convergent Technologies workSlate) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

8 Oct 1998

At 00:08 8/10/98 -0400, Ward Donald Griffiths III &lt;gram(a)cnct.com&gt; wrote:
...
 Tony Duell wrote:

  thrown in.  The NEC and Olivetti versions
depended on external modems  
 I have the Olivetti version - an M10, and the PCB certainly has positions
 for the internal modem components. Now, it would be quite normal for a UK
 machine not to have the modem (our CCITT tones are different from Bell
 tones at 300 baud, and there are different approval requirements), so I
 assumed that the US model had the modem fitted. 
I have never read a report or review of an M-10 with an internal modem.
And the magazines that covered the Model 100 _did_ review the Olivetti
and NEC products, but of course those magazines were rather more than
three moves ago (per Poor Richard, three removes equals one fire), but
I do recall that they all had the same Kyocera main board with minor
changes per customer. 
The NEC PC-8300 (updated version of the PC-8201A, with more RAM and a few
improvements in ROM, such as support for XMODEM in TELCOM) had an 300 baud
internal modem as an option (only available in the US).  Although my
PC-8300 doesn't have a modem, it does have a single loose A4 page in the
manual describing how to get Wall Street stock prices on-line.

Regards,

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