From: bv@wjv.com   
      
   In article <1138246368.802389.212890@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,   
   david  wrote:   
   >If it's not on the TV Dog site nor trs-80.com then it would be good to   
   >scan'er.  Esp. those S-100 (bogus?) ref's--good history!   
      
   What's the TV Dog sites.   I don't see it on trs-80.com   
      
   The S-100 refs are definately not bogus.  In the catalog only about   
   4 or 5 pages are Tandy products as most of the world knows them.   
      
   I just pulled it out now and the top says Tandy Computers   
   and the next line in 1978 Catalog - with the front cover   
   a photo of a micro-chip with a Zilog logo on the bottom corner -   
   probably the chip is a Z80 - the most popular Zilog product at   
   that time.   
      
   Inside the front cover there is a headline that says   
   "Microcomputers - The Beginning Of A New Era"   
      
   And there are photos of Soroc terminal, a Vector Graphics s-100   
   Box, a Centronics 781 printer and an Icom dual floppy [8"] external   
   box.  [I had to page through the catalog to identify that   
   piece].   
      
   The first product with the Tandy name easily seen is a unit that   
   fits under a desk that is called "The Naked Mini-4" which   
   says it contains " the LS 4/10, a complete, 16 bit printed circuit   
   board that contains a high-speed processors win an 85 instruction   
   set, 4K RAM and for Distributed I/O channels"   
      
   No price on that unit.  The next Tandy product is on page 19   
   which is labeled as Radio Shack TRS-80 printer.  The old re-badged   
   Centronics 701 [703?] with a list price of $1299.   
      
   Next page shows a floppy in a Verbatim folder Tandy Disk BASIC   
   at $149.94 and opposite that is Microsoft BASIC at $350.00   
      
   Page 22 has two of the original programs that were for the Model I,   
   Payroll at $19.95 and Personal Finance at $14.95.   
      
   Later there is a Tandy Computer RAM board.  8K static RAM.   
   Kit form $149.95, and factory assembled at $189.95.   
      
   The inside backpage and the backpage both feature Radio Shack Model   
   I.   
      
   If the other person wanted $39.95 [originally] for that catalog -   
   and I have about 8 or more, I'd hate to think what this would   
   fetch.   
      
   One time Hayes [remember them] was going trade me a brand new   
   9600BPS modem for my original S-100 Hayes modem - back in the days   
   when Dennis built them in his garage - as they didn't have one.   
      
   I tend to hang onto old things - sometimes they get to be worth   
   more - 95% of the time they become worth less - and in a few   
   instances worthless.   
      
   I even have an interface that hooks to a TRS80 Model 1 to an S-100   
   with an S-100 interface card.  It still in my mass mess somewhere.   
      
   And one of my projects is to get my Max80 running to read the   
   80-100 8" disk I have that I copied over from 5.25" floppies - that   
   have almost the complete artices/email from the TRS80 email support   
   group we had on the Source before Richard moved us all over   
   to Micro-Net.  And I have a lot of TRS postings saved there too,   
   and the only thing I'm sorry about is that I didn't start with   
   message 1 on the first sig on MicroNet - later named Compuserve.   
      
   The posts start somewhere around message 60.   
      
   I have more projects left to do than I have years to live based on   
   actuarial tables.   
      
   Bill   
      
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