HHC presentation teaser

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(10-01-2023 08:02 PM)Jeff_Birt Wrote:  I have a few boxes of various pocket computers including a few 'prototypes'. I attended Tandy Assembly in Ohio this weekend and accidently bought a pristine TRS-80 Model II which is now occupying the passenger seat in my truck. I will be my traveling companion from Ohio to Florida and back to Missouri even though it does not fit in at HHC

I still have a soft spot for the Model II (and the 16/16B/6000). I worked at Apparat in 1981-82. They were best known for their NewDOS-80 operating system for the Model I and Model III. They had a Model II in house, but did not develop any software for it. I have a model 1, model II, two 16Bs, a model 4P, and various Color Computers, but unfortunately have no 16B keyboard. I've been meaning to make an adapter to use a normal USB keyboard for the II/12/16/6000.. The gender of the keyboard cable and connector on the system unit changed at some point, and maybe pinout.

Until 386s started appearing in PCs, and ports of BSD Unix BSD386 (commercial from BSDi), then Jolitz'386BSD, th, my favorite computers for doing "real stuff" were the Apple II+ (with Softcard to run CP/M), TRS-80 Color Computer 2 (later 3), and the AT&T UnixPC (models 7300 and 3B1), though I generally used dialup access to DECsystem-10 or DECSYSTEM-20 timesharing for anything compute-intensive.