[Milsurplus] Re: kicking tires off our PCs

[Jim Isbell]

Are you sure it wasnt Tandy Radio Shack Disk Operating System???

D C Macdonald wrote:

> TRSDOS = The Radio Shack Disk Operating System
>
> Mac, K2GKK/5
>
>
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> 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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