Inside the TRS-80 Model 100 228
enalbro writes "What wouldn't you give for a laptop that starts instantly, weighs 3 pounds and gets 20 hours of battery life? That's the TRS-80 Model 100 in a nutshell. Granted, it displays only 8 lines of text and has just 28 kilobytes of memory, but it's a classic, the first truly popular portable in the U.S. At PC World we have a teardown that'll show you the guts of this featherweight champ." And, like many of the best things in life, it's powered by AA batteries (as is the Apple eMate).
Eh (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Eh (Score:2, Funny)
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celibacy required? (Score:5, Funny)
Bad news for virgins, huh?
Gates coding "skills" strike again... (Score:5, Funny)
"the Model 100 served as the portable computing workhorse of its day. Bill Gates' also ranks it as one of his favorite computers of all time, in large part because he and a friend wrote the firmware it uses."
And then on the 4th page:
"Peeking in from the left is the reset button, which the user needs from time to time due to a few pesky bugs in the ROM code, reminding us that even non-Windows systems can crash."
Come on then. It's funny.
what? no white model? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Love it! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:keyboards (Score:4, Funny)
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of Model M users cried out in rage, and then continued typing.
Re:Bought two used ones a long time back (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bought two used ones a long time back (Score:3, Funny)
Yep. Witness these 'screenshots':
Jan 12, 1908 Tue 14:03:54 (C)Microsoft
BASIC TEXT TELCOM ADDRSS
SCHEDL MYFILE.DO -.- -.-
Select: _ 24121 Bytes free
(edited for slashdot's junk characters filter)
BASIC was highlighted. Press Enter:
Jan 12, 1908 Tue 14:03:54 (C)Microsoft
WARNING!
You are about to run BASIC. This
software can make changes to your
system!
ALLOW CANCEL
Select: _ 24121 Bytes free
Filter error: Please use fewer 'junk'
Wrong! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
That was back when people would see your email address on your business card and say "what's that?". And when you told them, they'd say "oh you nerds can talk to each other, how cute". Those people are now getting phished by hackers, so it's all good.
Re:Eh (Score:5, Funny)
For instance... did you know...
These computers, as well as the TRS-80 CoCos and the Model I, III, and IV units... the units that saved programs to cassette, have greater wireless capabilities than our current hardware. All it takes is to plug in the input and output that are supposed to go to the cassette recorder, and patch it into a HAM radio. It's already being done. People are sending programs and information half-way around the world, without wires and without the assistance of satellites.
Re:Eh (Score:3, Funny)
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