[Milsurplus] Re: kicking tires off our PCs

[Unserviceable but Repairable]

A recent posting sez TRS-80 Mod. 1 (tag thot of later) was 1st.

Don't dispute it 1st big prod'n critter.

But a host of CP/M S100 things came ~1975.  Like the Imsai & before it
the Altair.  Then there was the Sphere, & Ohio Scientific, Ithaca,
ad naseum.

And they bring moolah.  A complete system just fetched ~$2100 while a CPU
w/o cover ~$600.  Shucks, I lost the site's url

An unanswered question is the origin of TRSDOS.  Many wondered why CP/M
was absent.

Word Processing.  First was Electric Pencil.  Can never forget the nervous 
flickering cursor.  Bought a serial interface module for a Diablo daisywheel,
did a driver-lette, & everybody in the biz went to town.  Who the heck
needed a Xerox Star WP anyway?

'Til Kaypros & WordStar(tle).  Then comes the rest of desktop history

I know the hair-splitting on the 5100, the HP desktop series, etc.
But these were the big populist ones.

I close by repeating: how the h3!! did TRSDOS arise?