[olug] Am I Old (was Cox High Speed)

Sean Edwards cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 23 14:30:59 UTC 2004


My TRS-80 Model IV!!

-=Sean Edwards=-
cybersean3000 at yahoo.com

--- Trent Melcher <tmelcher at trilogytel.com> wrote:

> I use to have an old TRASH 80, I got it from a
> middle school auction
> down in Florida years ago,  its was the old
> all-in-one model that had a
> keyboard monochrome screen and 2- 5 1/4" floppy
> drives in a silver case.
> What a heavy beast that was.
> 
> Trent
> 
> Trent Melcher
> Network/System Administrator
> Startouch International LTD.
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olug-bounces at olug.org
> [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
> Ben Dinger
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:30 AM
> To: cybersean3000 at yahoo.com; Omaha Linux User Group
> Subject: Re: [olug] Am I Old (was Cox High Speed)
> 
> 
> TRS-80 FOR LIFE!! Or something.  :)
> 
> Hell, we still have one of the little tandy
> portables - the ORIGINAL
> tablet PC! - here at work in a storage closet
> somewhere.  COmplete -
> COMPLETE - with the cassette drive.  I should go
> find it and make an
> excuse to play with it. 
> 
> Heh. 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 06:38:21AM -0700, Sean
> Edwards wrote:
> > For 3 years, I would spend many Sunday afternoons
> > typing in BASIC code on the TRS-80 demo machines
> at
> > Radio Shack.  The Model IV with the dual floppies
> was
> > my favorite, until the Color Computer II came out.
>  My parents bought 
> > a CoCo2 and I was hooked.
> > 
> > -=Sean Edwards=-
> > cybersean3000 at yahoo.com
> > 
> > --- Martin Willett <mwillett at highstream.net>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > Just to chime in on the "Am I Old" thread, did
> > > anybody else play with
> > > the extremely bizarre (in retrospect) "Timex
> > > Sinclair" with software on
> > > audio cassettes and pressure-panel keyboard? It
> only
> > > worked under a
> > > carefully controlled set of conditions.
> > > 
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> Ben Dinger
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