I stand corrected about the model, and affirmed about the timeline, and surprised that McDonald's was still using these relatively recently (as noted @ URL Mark provides below). -eg
-----Original Message----- From: Mark D. Johns [mailto:mjohns@luther.edu] Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:22 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard@csun.edu Subject: Re: [Air-l] timeline: TRS 80
Ellis Godard wrote:
... What you're remembering your journalist friends carrying were two latter additions to the series, the TRS-80 PC-1 (1981-?) and the TRS-80 PC-2 (1982-?) - though even those ceased production in the mid-80s, so that I'd be surprised if any journalist you knew was carrying one in the mid-90s...
No, this is incorrect. The TRS-80 Model 102 -- which I owned, loved, and used in the mid-80s -- is exactly as Barry described and as depicted in photos to which Jim Porter pointed in his link. The only flaw in Barry's memory of the time frame (although it is possible some journalists hung onto theirs into the early '90s). The Model 100 came out in 1983, and the 102 a year or two later.
See http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=233 -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain