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   From: KILLFILEjasonzc@yahoo.com   
      
   " krp"  wrote in news:5Qgjf.24$fY3.23@trnddc01:   
      
   >   
   > "george"  wrote in message   
   > news:1133303810.352788.308020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>> I sold TRS80's for Radio Shack in 1984, a summer job between college   
   >>> sessions.  My first was the original color computer that I used to   
   >>> log on to BBS's.  I was impressing the hell out of my friends in   
   >>> college with that 300 baud modem I could connect to the school   
   >>> network and do my scheduling projects RIGHT FROM MY DORM ROOM!   
   >   
   >   
   > 1984? The Trash 80 was LONG GONE................   
      
   Wrong. They were common in Radio Shacks in the early 80s. During the time   
   of CoCo. One school I attended used them until they got their Apple ][s,   
   in 84 or so.   
      
   > Maybe 1979..  Used   
   > 80's... The Trash 80 had a ugly GREEN screen with yellow characters,   
   > NO graphics capability besides the MOST basic ANSI. Primitive ANSI   
   > like lines that that was about it.  By 84 most people had at least   
   > 1200 baud modems and many 2400 baud. A couple years later 9600 was the   
   > norm.   
      
   He didn't say the TRS-80 had color.   
      
      
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