I am located in Melbourne Florida. I will see if I can get access to the power supply and see what shape it is in, thanks for the suggestion.
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 12:06 AM Richard Pope <mechani...@charter.net> wrote: > Devin, > I believe that this is a Z-80 machine that runs CPM. You will > probably find that the electrolytics in the power supply are leaking. > Please don't quote me on this. Where is this stuff located? > GOD Bless and Thanks, > rich! > > On 7/28/2020 11:00 PM, devin davison via cctalk wrote: > > Greetings. It has been an interesting day. Rather late in the day, a > buddy > > notified me of a local thrift store that went under, and mentioned there > > may be some computers on site up for grabs. Upon arrival, the place was a > > mess, but the folks there were friendly and gave me the tour, everything > > had to go, the shopkeeper skipped town and left the place full of junk > for > > the Building owner to clean out. > > > > I found a TRS 80 Model 12, a vga commodore branded monitor, commodore > > cassette drive, among some misc 5.25 floppy disks. There may be more, I > > need to go back for another sweep in the morning. > > > > The computer is extremely big, taking up an entire kitchen table,rivaling > > the space that is taken up on my desk for a pdp 11. I am looking to > clear a > > space to work on it without dropping parts. > > > > The machine looks to be clean, However i am missing the keyboard. > > The machine does not power on or show anything on the screen. I do hear a > > high pitched hiss, so there may be some kind of power supply issue. I was > > not aware of this model of machine, I am curious if anyone has a spare > > keyboard for sale. > > > > I am not familiar with this model, it has 2, 8 inch floppy drives on the > > front. I am curious about the format of the disks, would it be possible > to > > use another computer with an 8 inch drive to make a floppy to start the > > machine, or do the drives use an odd difficult format that would be > > impossible to write? > > > > http://devindamico.com/Uploads/TRS80M12.jpg > > > > --Devin D. > > > >
