Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19

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Subject: [Leica] First computer
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Mon Mar 19 22:16:53 2007
References: <200703182153.l2ILooKT070239@server1.waverley.reid.org> <724FDD310638E147AD8E509D15FFB731AC12A5@exchange.microassist.local> <45FF1656.1050808@summaventures.com> <7.0.1.0.2.20070319195714.024b06b0@comporium.net> <6FAEA8E3-D452-49E0-9E87-4A6B6B84CB77@charter.net> <200703200230.l2K2UBM1061182@server1.waverley.reid.org>

TRS-80's were ROM based, Marc. They had a BASIC in ROM. Their mass
storage was to cassette. There was a 2nd generation (and beyond) that
had a DOS but I don't remember what it was. I don't think it was CP/M.


Adam

On 3/19/07, Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote:
> At 10:00 PM 3/19/2007, Slobodan Dimitrov wrote:
>  >Oh, those! A friend of mine had one, or a model similar to it, from
>  >Radio Shack. He was trying to write his thesis with it. Every time a
>  >voltage hick-up occurred, he would loose everything he wrote. We
>  >stayed away from him that summer. In retaliation, he managed to
>  >switch the english department from PC to Macs.
>
> That's odd, Slobodan.  The Trash-80's ran of
> Digital Research software, well before Gates came
> out with Microsoft.  Radio Shack was one of the
> last major computer companies to shift over to
> the PC system.  And Macs were still three or four
> years in the future at that time, though he might
> have convinced his department to hamper its folks
> by using the early Apple computers.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@aya.yale.edu
> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!
>
>
>
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