Re: TRS-80 Question

Eric Dittman says: > There's a 2K hole in the Model I memory map above the ROM Is this the hole that causes stock Model I to not run CP/M? -- geo:37.78,-122.416667

Re: determing date on TI 99/4 computers.

* Black and chrome, chiclet keyboard - TI-99/4, the first TI home computer (1979). * Black and chrome, typewriter keyboard - TI-99/4A, the revised version of the above (1981). * Beige, typewriter keyboard - TI-99/4A, cost-reduced version of the above (1983). Manufactured for only a few mont

[cctalk] Re: First non-IBM PC-DOS Compatible PC

Tom Gardner says: > May I suggest compatibility is like pregnancy – you either are or > you are not. Agreed. This is why every non-highly compatible MS-DOS computer, like the Tandy 2000 and TI Professional, failed versus IBM. Even if a buyer only intended to use Lotus—widely ported to various MS

[cctalk] Re: First non-IBM PC-DOS Compatible PC

db says: > As we were painfully made aware when people tried to run comm > programs and they didn't work because we used the Z8530 to get dual > serial ports. Hyperion was not alone in having trouble with comm ports. Columbia University (my alma mater) reported in January 1984 that unmodified Ker

[cctalk] Re: First non-IBM PC-DOS Compatible PC

Warner Losh says: > The DEC Rainbow also hit these issues and needed its own custom > version of kermit... Yes, but DEC did not claim that Rainbow is fully PC compatible. Eagle and Seequa did. -- geo:37.78,-122.416667

[cctalk] Re: First non-IBM PC-DOS Compatible PC

Fred Cisin says: > Then, Toshib NMRI in Silicon Valley needed to be able to handle > Toshiba 80 track format disks for communication with home office, so > I gave the T300s to them. So a Toshiba office did not have computer equipment compatible with what its headquarters used? -- geo:37.78,

[cctalk] Re: Did Bill Gates Really Say That?

A 100% verifiable quote about memory from 1981: > Apple Computer president, A. C. Markkula, Jr. is confident that > Apple products will continue to do well. “The IBM is more expensive > than the Apple II, and the Apple III offers better performance,” he > says. > Markkula points out that publicat

[cctalk] Re: what to do with our "treasures"

ben says: > Things have not improved for shipping to CANADA from the USA. Now > it is $80 for $2.0 chip from the USA. Several points for you and others who buy or sell from the US: * Tell your sellers about Pirate Ship, and tell them to enable Simple Export rate

Re: Decision Data Keyboard for sale

Andrew Luke Nesbit says: > Does anybody have recommendations for RSS readers? I recommend Inoreader. Best replacement for Google Reader I know of.

Re: Electr* Engineering

Adam Thornton says: > The genealogy of Computer Science departments (and their curricula) > (at least in the US) is also weird and historically-contingent. > Basically it seems to have been a tossup at any given school whether > it came out of the Electr[ical|onic] Engineering department, in > whi

Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

Fred Cisin says: > But, instead, it looked as though they just replaced the dollar sign > with pound sign, and ignored the exchange rate! So, you paid about > twice as much for the machines. I have heard prices of PET: 600 > pounds (V $600), Apple: 1200 pounds (V$1200), and TRS80: 500 pounds > (V

Re: Microsoft-Paul Allen

Tony Duell says: > > In some of the documentation, the sketch of a joystick was clearly > > the Radio Shack Coco joystick (which needed a different connector) > > And is electrically different. The Tandy 1000 series has Color Computer joystick ports (and the TRS-80 card-edge parallel port). I've

Re: Strange magtape anecdote

Guy Sotomayor says: > We had a similar problem when I was at IBM and we were developing a > follow on to the PC/AT (it never shipped). Was this the "PC II" (a "true" sequel to the PC) that magazines constantly talked about IBM working on, until the PS/2 disappointed everyone? -- geo:37.78,-

Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

Liam Proven says: > I know that Sinclair computers were _so_ cheap that in the USA they > were perceived as toys, not worthy of any serious consideration. This was true in more wealthy countries outside the US, too. Sinclair never got anywhere in Germany compared to Commodore, for example. The ZX

Re: An American perspective on the late great Sir Clive Sinclair, from Fast Company

Jecel Assumpcao Jr says: > While the American public were very ignorant of Sinclair's > achievements, the US home computer makers were very worried about > them. In 1983 both Commodore and Texas Instruments were working on > their "ZX81 killers". The US industry thought that the $99 price point ne