Radio Shack TRS-80

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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 1989 18:27

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I bought a TRS-80 at an auction with no keyboard and no power cord.
Being curious, I opened the thing up. I found the 2 8 inch floppy drives,
some memory, (not being familiar with chips I have no idea how much memory),
and a 68k processor.

questions:
1) what kind of bus architecture was used in this machine? it doesn't look
   like S-100.
2) What was wrong with this system?  I don't remember the sales being great.

and
3) is it worth trying to get it fixed? and if so, where besides Radio
Shack can I find parts, etc.?  I know some suppliers of >Z
Zuckerboard, but other suppliers? and are Zuckerboard parts even
compatible with this machine?

Luther Atkinson
MCV Academic Computing, Virginia Commonwealth University
bitnet: Atkinson@vcuvax
Internet: Atkinson@ruby.vcu.edu

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