Last of the TRS-80's

Cameron Kaiser spectre at floodgap.com
Tue May 1 08:30:19 CDT 2018


> > The CoCo 3 was Tandy badged and never had TRS-80 nomenclature.
> > I believe the honor of last TRS-80 labeled computer falls on Tandy Radio
> > Shack's first PC clone attempt, the TRS-80 Model 2000 released in 1983,
> > shortly after the Z80 based Model 4 and MC68000 based 16B in the same year.
> 
> Might also be the Pocket Computer PC-3 (26-3590). This was also 1983. The
> revamped 26-3589 with increased memory came out in 1984, and was simply badged
> Tandy, so that appears to be the year the shift occurred. These were both
> rebadged Sharp PC-125x series pocket computers, see
> 
> 	http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tpm/138.html
> 
> for pictures and history.

And now that I think about it, add the 1983 PC-4 (26-3650/26-3650A) to that
list, which was also upgraded and re-released sans TRS-80 in 1985 (26-3650B).

	http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/tpm/4567.html

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