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Article #527Re: Business on TRS-80 [Was: The future of BASIC?]
From: Hunter1
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:41
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:41
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Phred wrote: > There was a business in the tourist ghetto of Cairns that sold Tandy > stuff. By the end of the TRS-80 they had half the other businesses in > Cairns running on these machines and a large (by our standards :) > training facility. Lots of places using the Model II with twin 8" > drives IIRC. Yeck... Had a model I then a model IV, a glorified model III with 64K of RAM from memory (quite a jump from the original 16K in the model I)that ran CPM in model 4 mode (but then I think the II did too) which both ran on 5 & 1/4s. > I seem to recall the boss saying after the IBM PCs appeared that the > big omission from BASIC on the IBM and clones was Ctrl O to sort > records. Apparently, a lot of the software they wrote for the local > businesses used this feature of TRS Basic in inventory/sales programs. Someone must have thought that was a fun standard at the time, nothing to do with TRS80 BASIC itself. >>I wonder how many current readers of this NG know how much we used to >>get out of those 8-bit systems, especially under LDOS, which had >>self-installing device drivers and (limited) multitasking before IBM >>was ready to admit that there could be such an animal as a _personal_ >>computer. I went from TRSDOS to NEWDOS and that was a major leap, never bothered to play with any of the other TRS80 OS's.
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