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03 August 1977 - RADIO SHACK UNVEILS THE TRS-80 COMPUTER: Tandy
announces one of the first mass-market home computers, the TRS-80, to be
sold in its Radio Shack stores. It features 4K of RAM and sells for $399
(or $599 with a monitor and tape recorder for storage). Upgrades will
keep various TRS-80 models on the market until 1991.

The TRS-80 had a full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, the Zilog Z80 processor, 4
KB dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) standard memory, small size and
desk area, floating-point Level I BASIC language interpreter in
read-only memory (ROM), 64-character per line video monitor, and a
starting price of US$600 (equivalent to US$2,900 in 2022). A cassette
tape drive for program storage was included in the original package.

MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.06

Title: Trash
Categories: Desserts, Fruits, Chocolate, Grains, Nuts
Yield: 24 Servings

1/2 c Butter; melted
6 oz Pkg chocolate chips
1 c Creamy peanut butter
18 oz Box Kix cereal
16 oz Box raisins
1 c Unsalted peanuts
Confectioner's sugar

Mix butter, chocolate chips and peanut butter together
over low heat and stir until all are melted.

Mix Kix, raisins, and peanuts together.

Pour wet mixture over dry. Mix thoroughly.

Toss with confectioner's sugar.

Start with 1 cup and add more if mixture doesn't look
like it is coated well.

Store in airtight container.

From: http://www.recipelink.com

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Hello, Dave!

Replying to a message of Dave Drum to All:

03 August 1977 - RADIO SHACK UNVEILS THE TRS-80 COMPUTER: Tandy
announces one of the first mass-market home computers, the TRS-80, to
be sold in its Radio Shack stores. It features 4K of RAM and sells
for $399 (or $599 with a monitor and tape recorder for storage).
Upgrades will keep various TRS-80 models on the market until 1991.

A TRS-80 CoCo 2 was my first "real" computer and what I taught myself BASIC on. Still miss that computer (it was stolen decades ago).

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Sean Dennis wrote to Dave Drum <=-

03 August 1977 - RADIO SHACK UNVEILS THE TRS-80 COMPUTER: Tandy
announces one of the first mass-market home computers, the TRS-80, to
be sold in its Radio Shack stores. It features 4K of RAM and sells
for $399 (or $599 with a monitor and tape recorder for storage).
Upgrades will keep various TRS-80 models on the market until 1991.

A TRS-80 CoCo 2 was my first "real" computer and what I taught myself BASIC on.
Still miss that computer (it was stolen decades ago).

My first "store-bought" confuser was the TraSh-80 Model I - with the level 2 roms/basic. At the time Radio Shaft offered a 33% discount on purchases over U$100 if you were a shareholder. So, I trudged down to Shearson/ American Express and bought 10 shares of Tandy for under U$200. Saved more than that on my purchase and held onto the stock for about 15 years.

It never paid a dividend but would split (sometimes 3 for i) when a price hit a certain point. When I sold out I got U$3300 for my holdings. Bv)=

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Believe it or not, we still use a TRS-80 model4 where I work. It run a proprietary enraving machine. Still runs strong. We do have some non working ones for spare parts.

It was the first computer I ever used.

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Ross Branham wrote to Dave Drum <=-

Believe it or not, we still use a TRS-80 model4 where I work. It run a proprietary enraving machine. Still runs strong. We do have some non working ones for spare parts.

It was the first computer I ever used.

I moved on to the Commode Door 64 after the TRaSh-80. A number of those
are still in service (the motherboards anyweay) with NOAA reporting on
tides and monitoring costal oceanographic data.

And one of the last remaining video rental companies in USA (Family
Video) ran their whole company on a Tandy 1000 using home brewed Linux
software until their demise last year. It was head-quartered just a mile
or so from my house.

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I moved on to the Commode Door 64 after the TRaSh-80. A number of those are still in service (the motherboards anyweay) with NOAA reporting on tides and monitoring costal oceanographic data.
And one of the last remaining video rental companies in USA (Family
Video) ran their whole company on a Tandy 1000 using home brewed Linux software until their demise last year. It was head-quartered just a mile or so from my house

I would like to know what other old computers are being used for daily business use. It's amazing to me that they're still in use as old as they are.

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Re: Re: Today in History - 1977
By: Ross Branham to Dave Drum on Sun Aug 06 2023 09:14 am

I would like to know what other old computers are being used for daily busin

PDP-11 reported in use in a nuclear power plant. They don't plan to decomission the machinery until 2050.

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Richard Falken wrote to Ross Branham <=-

PDP-11 reported in use in a nuclear power plant. They don't plan to decomission the machinery until 2050.

I'd assume there's a 2038 event possible with the OS. Might be easier to emulate the OS with modern hardware?



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Re: Re: Today in History - 1977
By: Kurt Weiske to Richard Falken on Wed Aug 09 2023 07:15 am

I'd assume there's a 2038 event possible with the OS. Might be easier to emulate the OS with modern hardware?

Real sysadmins dial the system calendar back another 20 years and work with a fake date.

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