Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]USA TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI 20 March 2007 Hi there-- I was Tandy's first full-time computer instructor. I spent more than five years teaching Model I, II, II, IV, the 100, etc. As a historical note, I am told that the operating system for the Model 100 was the last direct programming done by Bill Gates. --Bill Clough ----- Original Message ---- From: Phil Swango <pswango@att.net> To: LUG <lug@leica-users.org> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 3:15:09 PM Subject: [Leica] First computer MJ Small wrote: The "laptop" that Radio Shack marketed in the early 1980's was a CP/M machine. I went from a Sinclair to a Commodore 64 to one of those laptops (model number forgotten) to my first PC. =================================== Marc, if you're referring to the TRS-80 Model 100 (which I still have), they called it a "briefcase" computer. It had the LCD screen with about 8 lines of text visible. It had BASIC in ROM. It wouldn't respond to CP/M command lines (I just checked). But I don't know what the actual OS was. -- Phil Swango 307 Aliso Dr SE Albuquerque, NM 87108 505-262-4085 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information