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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. Re:Bullshit by raduga · · Score: 2, Insightful
    That doesn't follow.

    Model 100 : TRS-80 :. Newton : Macintosh
    actually.

    "fascinating, innovative machine having little to do with its more well-known bretheren, which completely failed to catch on, and had surprisingly little direct influence on future devices of the same style which didn't appear until much, much later, but which changed the computing paradigm forever"

    Model 100 : laptop :. Newton : PDA

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