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$3 opening bid. (item 8824225313 end time Jun-13-06 08:40:24 PDT) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8824225313 Pickup only from N Detroit, MI ...
Neil Morrison
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I just recently ran across some of the great emulators for the TRS-80 - my first computer was a 4K Level 1 machine. The emulators have let me re-live by early...
bjunk
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Yep. I still have the cassette and the 'magazine' that it was covered in. I actually have 4 or 5 of those newspapers - I believe they died after that. Regards,...
Neil Morrison
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I took out all the screts, and when I lift, the crt and all wants to go with the top part of the case. Am I doing something wrong, or should I just keep...
Chris M
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Hi Chris, Keep lifting. The Tube and video board are attached to the top part of the case. There are cables which attach from the power supply/motherboard to...
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Yo thanks Aussie dude! Didnt know Trash-80s were popular in Oz LOL LOL. A number of interesting puters (see I say putuh just like an Aussie and in fact learned...
Chris M
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"Trusty-80" Please! That other term is only used by owners of Commodores and similar toy computers. Neil ... From: Chris M Yo thanks Aussie dude! Didnt know...
Neil Morrison
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I was only funnin. The model 4 I got is a beauty, but the old battle-ship grey style (model 3?) is more to my liking (and more nostalgic imho). ... ...
Chris M
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ahem... Bill "Commodores are computers too" Degnan In a message dated 6/15/2006 1:11:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, neilsmorr@... writes: << "Trusty-80"...
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I missed that part of the post entirely. Yeah, dont talk that kind of s**t around Bill. Hes even got some crustaceous old Commie booting up into MS-DOZE 1.0! ...
Chris M
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Commies are good as door stops. If you power them up the cat can sleep on them too. :) Neil ... From: billdeg@... ahem... Bill "Commodores are computers...
Neil Morrison
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o crap Im getting out of here lol ... the cat can sleep on ... email. ... http://us.click.yahoo.com/6pRQfA/fOaOAA/yQLSAA/CFFolB/TM ... ...
Chris M
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Did ya have a C64 back in the day Neil? Besides an Atari ST or possibly an Amiga (which both cost loads more) it was the funnest computer around. Pure fun in ...
Chris M
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My fish that got away is bigger than your fish that got away :) Neil ... From: Chris M o crap Im getting out of here lol ... the cat can sleep on...
Neil Morrison
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Jun 16, 2006
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I dont fish. I buy my fish already kilt in a can at the ubermarket. Nor do I get the point/joke yer trying to make. Are you sniffing Brut again? ... got away...
Chris M
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No. There was a guy who used to sell them next to our Radio Shack Computer Centre. He said he had an over 80% warranty return rate on them. We never had one...
Neil Morrison
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no one's ignorant of their failure rate. They were cheap though towards the end (that was my 3rd computer). That original $600 sticker price was ridiculous...
Chris M
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In the trade papers they advertised the console as the razor and all of the add ons and software as the blades - supposedly you lost money on the razors but...
Neil Morrison
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towards the end, so many of them were sold (30,000,000?) that they could afford to lower the price. They became very commodity. ... ...
Chris M
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Does anyone know of a hard drive controller available for the TRS80 model 3 or 4? I realize that if there is one it is/was for the old mfm drives but I would...
Jim Pruitt
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Jul 5, 2006
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... A 1.44mb drive is normally also takes 720k and the drive will autodetect by sensing the hole in the disk "sleeve" (and disregard the HD input). So yes. ...
Knut Roll-Lund
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... I know that it does *not* keep the TRS-80 authentic with the 1980's version, but I think someone needs to design a card that will take Compact Flash eprom....
Charles Richmond
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If I understand you correctly, you are saying that a standard 1.44mb floppy drive would work but only with 720K disks. I was actually hoping to use them as...
Jim Pruitt
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Interesting. I know that all Commodore drives in the USA are 300RPM. There are a lot of emulators for the PC that can be used to read and format disks in ...
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... how the ... even ... that ran at ... and double ... Standard 5 1/4" floppy drives run at 300 rpm. The high density drives are 360s (as well as 8" drives)....
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... Does anyone know where to get *technical* information on the hard disk interface for each of the TRS-80 models? The software-level interface could be...
Mark McDougall
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AFAIK, all models used the same system EXCEPT the 8 Mb drives. You could try Frank Durda IV on comp.sys.tandy Neil ... From: Mark McDougall ... Does anyone...
Neil Morrison
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Jul 9, 2006
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I have seven of the 9 issues of PROG/80 from Softside Magazine. I am missing #1 (March 1979) and #7 (May 1980). Anyone have copies of those? Anyone else have a...
Neil Morrison
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Jul 9, 2006
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Jim, I wouldn't bother with an older drive. The number of hours on it would mean that it will soon fail, if it's not already dead. A much better way to go is...
markh893
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Jul 10, 2006
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Hi: 30,000,000 sounds high to me. Was this for all TRS-80s or just the Model IV? Does anyone have production figures for the Model 1, Expansion Interface...
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