[Milsurplus] Re: kicking tires off our PCs

[D C Macdonald]

TRSDOS = The Radio Shack Disk Operating System

Mac, K2GKK/5



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From: Unserviceable but Repairable <cosmoline at ba-watch.org>
To: Milsurplus at mailman.qth.net, nerd at verizon.net
Subject: [Milsurplus] Re:  kicking tires off our PCs
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 10:28:05 -0400 (EDT)

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?
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