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The History of the TRS-80 (2012)
- leejoramo 11y agoGot my start on a Model III. Upgraded it to 48k and floppies running LDOS.
- pohl 11y agoModel I here. Started out with the base 4k and cassette storage. Over time, my dad invested in the expansion interface, 48k, the lowercase character-generator, and eventually four floppy drives, and LDOS (which I remember loving). He really sacrificed to give me a head start. Miss you, dad. I used to drool over pictures of the Model 4 in the catalogs.
- leejoramo 11y agoIn the late 1990's, I briefly worked with one of the founders of Galactic Software, the firm that created LDOS. I commented to him that after nearly 20 years LDOS still felt more powerful than MS-DOS. He agreed with me, and explained how many Unix type features such as pipes and a real shell they had implemented.
- Afton 11y agoThe Living Computer Museum in Seattle has one of these set up if you want to play some of the old classics. http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/ http://www.livingcomputermuseum.org/
- saganus 11y agoOne of the first computers I used was a TRS-80 Model 4P.... wow that thing was great... I mean.. you could actually carry it around! (potential back problems notwithstanding...)
- jim_lawless 11y agoThe history of one of the software companies mentioned, Big Five Software, can be found here: http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/ http://www.bigfivesoftware.com/ They produced some excellent arcade games. They also sold adapted Atari joysticks which could be used with their games.