Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >