Hi,   
      
   Today I've rescued a complete Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 with RS232 interface and   
   modded Tandy monitor (now having a disk drive).   
      
   The Tandy and RS232 are both heavy modified. The old owner could tell me it   
   has a High Grafics mode, memory expansion and double density mod. Next to this   
   I also found schematics of RTC clock, a stop flicker fix, lowercase characters.   
      
   I opened the machine and it's a mess of cables and piggy backed mods. Also I   
   found a Z80 CPU so it's probably running faster too.   
      
   My problem is, the things doesn't boot. When I turn on the machine (with or   
   without RS232 interface) I get a lot of characters on the screen, but nothing   
   more. About 50% of the time it is in 'high resolution', the other times are   
   just big letters.   
      
   Any idea of what's wrong with this oldie and if I can be revived?   
      
   Up until a month ago the machine did boot up without RS232 interface and   
   before that the interface worked (but that's > 10 years ago). I'm not sure if   
   the old owner did try to connect the RS232 to the machine.   
      
   Photo I made today: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphot   
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   I hope this one can be saved, even only to see all the mods made to this   
   machine.   
      
   signed,   
   Bart   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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