[HN Gopher] TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
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       TRS-80: a TRS-80 running a custom Associated Press ROM
        
       Author : Aloha
       Score  : 50 points
       Date   : 2021-01-23 16:57 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | KingOfCoders wrote:
       | The article is extremly US centric. This is also the rrason I no
       | longer watch the 8bit guy. Im getting older and am annoyed by
       | this history rewriting.
        
         | krallja wrote:
         | The author of this article and The 8-Bit Guy live in the United
         | States. What do you want them to do, imagine anecdotes for
         | other regions? There are plenty of people who cover European,
         | South American, Asian, and Soviet retro computing histories.
        
       | ficklepickle wrote:
       | I bought a TRS-80 Color Computer (CoCo) a while back. Has the
       | tape drive and thermal printer.
       | 
       | I have to make a cable and find some thermal paper, but otherwise
       | it as all there. Hopefully one day soon I fire it up.
       | 
       | My first computer was in the Windows 3.11 era, so I find this era
       | quite interesting.
        
       | flenserboy wrote:
       | The 100 was a nice little machine, and the batteries (at least on
       | the model we used) lasted forever. I first used one for a summer
       | job with our local city, taking down street-damage information
       | for our roads department. We'd drive all over town, take random
       | samples of stretches of streets, and measure cracks, holes, etc.,
       | entering all the data into the 100, which would then be uploaded
       | to a 286 (12mhz turbo!) for number-crunching to determine which
       | streets in town needed attention first. The 100 took a lot of
       | punishment and just kept working, with no memorable hiccups. The
       | keyboard was perfectly adequate to the task, and the screen,
       | though small even for the day, was easy to adjust to (as long as
       | the light in the room / outside was right).
        
       | Tempest1981 wrote:
       | There is also this TRS-80 Model III emulator:
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       | https://github.com/lkesteloot/trs80
        
         | reaperducer wrote:
         | I'll have to try that out. A neighbor's Model III was the first
         | machine I played Zork on, so it has good memories.
        
           | lkesteloot wrote:
           | There are a bunch of Model III emulators:
           | http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/emulators/
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           | Including my latest online one: https://www.my-trs-80.com/
        
         | Narishma wrote:
         | Which has nothing to do with the Model 100. The title is
         | misleading.
        
       | PostThisTooFast wrote:
       | Very well written.
       | 
       | Always thought this was a cool, tidy computer.
        
       | Tempest1981 wrote:
       | More discussion in 2019, here:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20201354
        
         | Aloha wrote:
         | I had searched for the previous thread and was unable to
         | locate, thank you!
        
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