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Tandys Never Die

Posted by michael on from the they-just-get-dimmer-and-dimmer dept.

kevcol writes: "Great article on the SF Chronicle's website on a school bus driver in Contra Costa County California who heads a Tandy model 100 computer user group. The model 100 was the portable version of the beloved TRS-80 (jokingly known as the 'Trash 80') which was the first computer I ever laid fingers on in high school back in the day..."

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  1. My friend had one in the early '80's by flacco · · Score: 3, Funny
    He seemed to use his TRS-80 primarily as a THC enhancement device. I NEVER saw him in front of that thing unless he was completely baked.

    Now that I think of it, I don't think I ever saw him when he WASN'T totally baked. Seriously.

    But he could do some cool stuff with it.

    --
    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
  2. Hanson says... by Hellen+Back · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...Hanson says that he still hears from police departments, military contractors and academic researchers who still use the thing...

    Which explains a whole heck of alot about NASA's current dilemmas.
    --
    Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.
    fortune cookie

  3. Re:Bullshit by gruntled · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, I have one of mine in my lap at the moment (I wrote a newspaper column on this one for years) and it says, in big black letters on a silver background on a label in the upper right corner, "Radio Shack, TRS-80, Model 100, Portable Computer." How's that for research?

  4. Re:Guys in Glass Houses.... by dougmc · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hmm. Bought on at the local Goodwill computer store a while back for $9.00. I set up a simple program --
    10 A = A + 1
    20 PRINT "Hello there #", $A ;
    30 GOTO 10
    And it's been running this for something like a year now. It's up to 113,869,084.

    The battery is very nice -- it let it keep going even while we moved offices and lost power :)