Looking for TRS-80 Model parts (and/or someone in the Phoenix, AZ area)

[Peter Cetinski]

> On Apr 24, 2017, at 7:37 AM, Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:
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>> Just  picked up a TRS-80 Model 12, and it boot to the "insert disk 
>> prompt" ...  Yay!
>> 
>> Jim
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> You can find the MC68000 board set (you’ll need a CPU board and at least one memory board) on eBay quite often.  In most cases, it will be the Model 16 6Mhz board which will allow you to run TRS-XENIX 1.x.  If you’re lucky, you’ll find the Model 6000 8Mhz board which will allow you to run Xenix 3.2.  Finding a card cage is the hard part.  These are extremely rare but do pop up from time to time.  There is another option called the Hans-02 and 03 adapters created by Hans Rietveld which is a modern replacement for the card cage.  You can find them on Ian Mavric’s site.
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> http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/ <http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/Hans/>

Correction: You’d want the Hans 03 and 04

In regards to the keyboard, the later Model 12/16B/6000 keyboards are hard to find.  The Model II keyboard is more common.  You can easily use the Model II/16 keyboard with these by creating a new 5pin DIN cable and switching a few of the keyboard input pins and swapping the gender of the connector.