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   From: chase@cheese.net   
      
   On 30 Nov 2005 12:44:22 GMT, Spaulding Greystoke   
    puked:   
      
   >" 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.   
      
   I was referring to the CoCo (Color Computer).  They were out around   
   the same time as the Model II and had a slot like a Nintendo game for   
   programs.  You used a TV screen as a monitor and backed up data to 5   
   minute audio cassettes.  State of the art stuff...   
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