Subj : Re: My new* 486 (*=old)
To   : calcmandan
From : Bikerbob
Date : Sat Feb 18 2023 06:32:02

On 13 Feb 23  05:35:53 calcmandan wrote...

CC>  xb> Anyone else have a early era PC? Please share the specs and what
CC>  xb> your doing with it if so.  
CC> 
CC> Believe it or not, my daily driver for writing is a Tandy TRS-80
CC> Model 200 laptop. I used to host a phlog on gopher space and I will
CC> again at some point, all the entries were written on the 200. All
CC> pending articles, for when the phlog comes back online, are stored on
CC> there at the moment. I also host a weekly radio show and write my
CC> show notes on it. At some point, I intend to get a wifi card that
CC> plugs into the serial port - so I can bbs on it.
CC> 
CC> It has a 80C85A CPU, 72k ram, 240x128 full-dot matrix LCD, interfaces
CC> for modem, printer, cassette, and BCR. Funs on four AA batteries that
CC> lasts about a week for me, sometimes less depending on usage. I
CC> bought it with a Rex expansion module giving me 1MB of extra storage.
CC> I'm considering the purchase of a backpack device, which mimicks a
CC> floppy drive up to 8gb of storage as well as a wifi card. I would
CC> like to bbs on it.
CC> 
CC> Daniel Traechin
CC> 
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To which Bikerbob replies...

WOW.. very cool on the model 200 - I was not aware, sounds like it is
somewhat close to the Atari Portfolio. My oldest laptop is a Dell D600 or
a Ibook G4 - The first because it is native serial - for a number of
reasons not the least of which is a modem - but also other communications
issues with other retro hardware - and the IbookG4 because damm that
thing was SLICK in its day. Great screen fantasic keyboard. I loved to
WORK on that machine.. light.. battery would last forever. 

I still have my my first machine Atari 400 - now with 48K B-Key keyboard,
and S-Video output. I dont use it often, but it still fires up a few
times a year.

James

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