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Um, they might want to read up on a little machine that came out within a year of the Grid... namely, the TRS-80 Model 100.
by fallous 14y ago
Um, they might want to read up on a little machine that came out within a year of the Grid... namely, the TRS-80 Model 100.
- hnriot 14y agoThe Trash-80 wasn't a laptop! They were popular though, I had one. My first memories of laptops were from Compaq, and they were not flat but more brick like, with fold down keyboards and big slots for the floppy drives. I carried one of these around for a few years (consulting), eventually it was replaced with a toshiba T1000 and its offspring.
- bitwize 14y agoThe "Trash-80" (TRS-80 Model I) was not a laptop, but the Radio Shack Model 100 most certainly qualified. It was a brick -- no clamshell -- with a full-travel QWERTY keyboard on the bottom and a rinky-dink nonbacklit calculator display on top. It came with BASIC and some other rudimentary applications. The OS was menu-driven, and was the last significant piece of software that Bill Gates personally contributed to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100 Writers loved these things because they lasted for ages on a set of AA cells.
- salgernon 14y agoThere is still a market for them, and they go for about $40 on ebay. They have a great keyboard and run for weeks on batteries. I have a policy of giving them to children for their tenth birthday, along with a book on BASIC programming.