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TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
- PostThisTooFast 6y agoVery well written. Always thought this was a cool, tidy computer.
- Tempest1981 6y agoMore discussion in 2019, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201354
- Aloha 6y agoI had searched for the previous thread and was unable to locate, thank you!
- Tempest1981 6y agoThere is also this TRS-80 Model III emulator: https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80 https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80
- Narishma 6y agoWhich has nothing to do with the Model 100. The title is misleading.
- reaperducer 6y agoI'll have to try that out. A neighbor's Model III was the first machine I played Zork on, so it has good memories.
- lkesteloot 6y agoThere are a bunch of Model III emulators: http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/ http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/ Including my latest online one: https://www.my-trs-80.com/ https://www.my-trs-80.com/
- KingOfCoders 6y agoThe article is extremly US centric. This is also the rrason I no longer watch the 8bit guy. Im getting older and am annoyed by this history rewriting.
- krallja 6y agoThe author of this article and The 8-Bit Guy live in the United States. What do you want them to do, imagine anecdotes for other regions? There are plenty of people who cover European, South American, Asian, and Soviet retro computing histories.
- KingOfCoders 6y agoNot spreading false information. Of all sites I would think HN would appreciate correctness. "The TRS-80 Model 100 is claimed by some to be the world’s first portable computer." About the first portable, at least an earlier one than the TRS-80 mentioned: Epson HX-20 [1] The TRS-80 Model 100 was a Kyotronic 85 [2] The TRS-80 PC-1 was a Sharp PC-1211. The TRS-80 PC-2 was a Sharp PC-1500. The TRS-80 PC-3 was a Sharp PC-1251. The TRS-80 PC-4 was a Casio PB-100. The Tandy PC-5 was a Casio FX-780P. The Tandy PC-6 was Casio FX-790P. The Tandy PC-7 was Casio FX-5200P. The Tandy PC-8 was Sharp PC-1246. Beside Tandy, many (all?) Timex computers where Sinclairs invented in the UK [3] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epson_HX-20 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000
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- Aloha 6y agoOh yes, Tandy was the master of contract manufacturing, they had many Japanese manufacturers OEMing their consumer electronics. Most of the 8-bit microcomputers were US made or developed though, notably: Apple II Family Commodore PET, VIC-20, 64 families TRS-80 Family Atari 8-bit family (400/800) TI-99/4 Family This said - There are many very innovative computers that were not, the BBC Micro, the Sinclair ZX Line, Amstrad CPC. There were also a bevy of machines made in the USSR, which vanishingly little details about have gotten into english language spheres.
- ficklepickle 6y agoI bought a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) a while back. Has the tape drive and thermal printer. I have to make a cable and find some thermal paper, but otherwise it as all there. Hopefully one day soon I fire it up. My first computer was in the Windows 3.11 era, so I find this era quite interesting.
- flenserboy 6y agoThe 100 was a nice little machine, and the batteries (at least on the model we used) lasted forever. I first used one for a summer job with our local city, taking down street-damage information for our roads department. We'd drive all over town, take random samples of stretches of streets, and measure cracks, holes, etc., entering all the data into the 100, which would then be uploaded to a 286 (12mhz turbo!) for number-crunching to determine which streets in town needed attention first. The 100 took a lot of punishment and just kept working, with no memorable hiccups. The keyboard was perfectly adequate to the task, and the screen, though small even for the day, was easy to adjust to (as long as the light in the room / outside was right).
- SpikeDad 6y agoI've had a 102 for many years and I programmed on a 102 back when I was in college writing programs for farmers for our Plant Pathology department. I never knew about this AP ROM. Fascinating. So interesting what kind of computing you can get now for 4lbs.
- amelius 6y agoLooks a lot like this machine: https://www.clockworkpi.com/ https://www.clockworkpi.com/
- TrevorFSmith 6y agoMy first programming memory is using a Model 100 in the back seat of a car on a long road trip. A great machine.