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| Posted by: didius on 2008-07-09 07:52:05 I picked up a Tandy TRS 80 model 3 computer today for free [🙂] ]'> Neat little old computer! Still working, but the floppys are damaged  (It seems to have a soundcard build in afterwards, amateur style) [😀] ]'> | |
| Posted by: MacMan on 2008-07-09 09:35:42 Wow, that is a very neat machine. It looks a little bit like a Superbrain. | |
| Posted by: MacDan on 2008-07-09 09:36:19 Looks pretty awesome. Nice find. | |
| Posted by: tomlee59 on 2008-07-09 10:06:42 That's a terrific conquest! Brings back very fond memories... What sort of damage have the drives suffered? If the heads are ok, then the drives are probably fixable. IIRC, they use only standard, off-the-shelf chips (no weirdo proprietary epoxy-potted modules), so any electronic repair should be straightforward. | |
| Posted by: Unknown_K on 2008-07-09 10:46:12 I remember my highschool lab had a few of those back in the 80's, nice machines for work at the time. Alot of older drives FH need recapped and cleaned/lubed, nothing too hard to do. | |
| Posted by: Bunsen on 2008-07-09 17:09:46 I've been after a dead one of them for casemodding for ages. Haven't been able to track down one in Australia that I could afford at the time yet. | |
| Posted by: dbraverman88 on 2008-07-09 18:30:46 Fantastic! They made Visicalc come to life. --David | |
| Posted by: Temetka on 2008-07-09 22:47:02 Sweet. TRS 80's are a big part of computing history (whether people like to admit it or not, kind like OS/2). I myself would not mind picking one up in the future just to preserve. | |
| Posted by: Quadraman on 2008-07-10 03:07:32 We had model 3's and 4's in my high school. The instructor there was a Radio Shack employee part time when he wasn't teaching. My brother had a Color Computer 2 here at home. (Europeans, think Dragon 64, they were mostly the same machine). | |
| Posted by: 4seasonphoto on 2008-07-10 06:09:49 Nice! It probably predates the IBM PC. The silver paint used to get worn off where people's hands rubbed against it, but yours looks pretty much intact. The very first part time job I ever had was at...Radio Shack! And the Model 1 and 3 are the first two PCs I ever used. Didn't have floppy drives installed, so everything got loaded from cassette. I wouldn't be surprised if the floppy drives more than doubled the price of the machine. | |
| Posted by: Amelia on 2008-07-12 23:38:18 Wow. I LOVE it. I think it's....cute [:I] ]'> | |
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