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========================================================================= Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 09:21:04 +0200
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Gert Braakman <nature@WXS.NL>
Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 7 Apr 1998 to 8 Apr 1998 (#1998-14)
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>A postscript to my previous message...
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>I should have hung on to my TRS-80 Model 1 a little longer! At least five years ago, I gave it to a daycare that was still using one. It originally cost me well over $1,000 (1978 or 79) to acquire. But it was just using space in my basement. I still have my two (don't ask) TRS-80 Model 100 portables. They still work. And one will last all day on a set of 4 AA NiCads! My boys play games on them, occasionally. I intend to begin teaching programming to my oldest son on the Model 100. Simple BASIC. No consequence-environment where file deletes won't matter. Take one anywhere. And owning two of them means we work side-by-side. Maybe I'll eventually decide to donate one or both to the archives where I work. Don't know what I'd do about maintaining the RAM button battery, though. At home, I put used AA alkalines in to keep the button battery charged. Didn't have that problem with the Model 1!
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>Tony Wickersham
>Computer Programmer
Hi,
Great to hear from another TRS-80 affectionado. I used to own two but trashed them 12 years ago. Last year I bought an old trs 80 at a fleemarket for the equivalent of $2. It still worked and I was able to read some of the original tapes I still owned from the first machine. Last year I discouvered that many of the original games and programs for the TRS-80 are available for free on the internet. There are many TRS-80 emulators around that run almost all of the old software. The websites that carry these emulators usually also carry hugh libraries of original software. The same applies to the apple en spectrum computers. ' I haven't searched for CP'/M software yet but I wouldn't be surprised to find some on the net. Hardware may become much more of a problem. I still hang on to my old osborne single density "portable". Unfortunately one of its diskdrives stopped working, and there's only one person alive here in the netherlands who knows how to repair these things. He is his seventies, so I'll have to hurry. (:-)
Gert
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Reply-To: nature@wxs.nl
Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Gert Braakman <nature@WXS.NL>
Subject: Re: CYHIST Digest - 7 Apr 1998 to 8 Apr 1998 (#1998-14)
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>A postscript to my previous message...
>
>I should have hung on to my TRS-80 Model 1 a little longer! At least five years ago, I gave it to a daycare that was still using one. It originally cost me well over $1,000 (1978 or 79) to acquire. But it was just using space in my basement. I still have my two (don't ask) TRS-80 Model 100 portables. They still work. And one will last all day on a set of 4 AA NiCads! My boys play games on them, occasionally. I intend to begin teaching programming to my oldest son on the Model 100. Simple BASIC. No consequence-environment where file deletes won't matter. Take one anywhere. And owning two of them means we work side-by-side. Maybe I'll eventually decide to donate one or both to the archives where I work. Don't know what I'd do about maintaining the RAM button battery, though. At home, I put used AA alkalines in to keep the button battery charged. Didn't have that problem with the Model 1!
>
>Tony Wickersham
>Computer Programmer
Hi,
Great to hear from another TRS-80 affectionado. I used to own two but trashed them 12 years ago. Last year I bought an old trs 80 at a fleemarket for the equivalent of $2. It still worked and I was able to read some of the original tapes I still owned from the first machine. Last year I discouvered that many of the original games and programs for the TRS-80 are available for free on the internet. There are many TRS-80 emulators around that run almost all of the old software. The websites that carry these emulators usually also carry hugh libraries of original software. The same applies to the apple en spectrum computers. ' I haven't searched for CP'/M software yet but I wouldn't be surprised to find some on the net. Hardware may become much more of a problem. I still hang on to my old osborne single density "portable". Unfortunately one of its diskdrives stopped working, and there's only one person alive here in the netherlands who knows how to repair these things. He is his seventies, so I'll have to hurry. (:-)
Gert
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