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From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: You'll never believe -- TRS80 MOD I Nostalgia
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Date: 10 May 90 03:03:28 GMT
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Reply-To: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Timothy Takahashi)
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In article <72719@aerospace.AERO.ORG> goldstein@arecibo.aero.org writes:
>Some of us haven't gotten anywhere it seems... After working all day on a 
>mongo full-blown 33MHz 386 machine and VAXes and Suns, I go home to my good 
>old trusty still-limping-along Mod I.
>
>After all, if you write in compact Z80 code rather than using some 
>inefficient compiler, you'll find that 48k is really not that ... uh ...
>well, never mind.


I'm sure impressed. Think about how well things like Anitek's LeScript
and the old Visicalc used to (I guess still do) run on those 1.77 mhz
machines. I used to run an LNW-80 before I got a PC (I held out until
1987) - wow! power is running programs written for a 1.77 Mhz machine
at 4 Mhz, no wait states with shadow RAM, and EMS!

Good to hear that the old Z80 flame still burns!

(actually I have a collection of ancient computers now .......

  Two semi-functional LNW-80 (super Model I trs-80s)
  One Exidy Sorcerer (not sure whether it works)
  One Rockwell AIM-65!!!!!!!!!!!

tim