Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!masscomp!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Advanced Systems Message-ID: <1991Apr4.165235.25746@bilver.uucp> Date: 4 Apr 91 16:52:35 GMT References: <1991Apr2.171206.12184@bilver.uucp> <13158@ur-cc.UUCP> Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL Lines: 38 In article <13158@ur-cc.UUCP> ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tim Takahashi) writes: >In article <1991Apr2.171206.12184@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes: >>When I went to get this, I found the "12 page" manual for TRSDOS 2.0 with a >>June 7, 1978 date on the cover. My disks had hand written labels. The >>first printed TRSDOS lables were shipped with TRSDOS 2.1 if memory serves. >People seem to forget things awfully fast as the former owner of a Model I >TRS-80, and Model II TRS-80, Tandy 102, an LNW-80 mkII, an RCA VIP and >currently holding on the a Rockwell AIM-65. I think I've seen alot of >"obsolete" systems.... 1978 Was the infancy of small computers and Tandy >was at the lead (remeber Apple didn't offer floating point until late 1979). >A Model I is a slug compared to a SPARC, but they were useful machines for >their day (and we should remember them as such). >The days of handwritten disk labels has come and gone..... Tim - you left out one of the names of that era - LOBO. They had an expansion interface for the Model I, that would support FOURTEEN 8" HARD drives. About the time they got it finished RS dropped the Model I, so they incorporated that desing into a Model I hardware semi-compatible. Probably one of the best Z80 based machines around. I got the 4th Model I delivered locally, and my Lobo was one of the first 10 or so machines built. Mine came out of the second weeks production. Week one produced two machines. The unit could support four 5" drives and four 8" drives simultaneously. Shipped with CPM 2.2 and LDOS 5.1 for a total of $929. Still have two of those (along with two model I's, a model 16 with a serial number in the 700 range, and a pair of 6000 HDs - one with an internal 70 meg). Those were FUN! days. -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: uunet!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP