[Air-l] timeline: TRS 80

[Ellis Godard]

I stand corrected about the model, and affirmed about the timeline, and
surprised that McDonald's was still using these relatively recently (as
noted @ URL Mark provides below).

-eg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark D. Johns [mailto:mjohns at luther.edu] 
> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 3:22 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org; ellis.godard at csun.edu
> Subject: Re: [Air-l] timeline: TRS 80
> 
> 
> Ellis Godard wrote:
> > ...
> > What you're remembering your journalist friends carrying were two 
> > latter additions to the series, the TRS-80 PC-1 (1981-?) and the 
> > TRS-80 PC-2
> > (1982-?) - though even those ceased production in the 
> mid-80s, so that I'd
> > be surprised if any journalist you knew was carrying one in 
> the mid-90s... 
> 
> No, this is incorrect. The TRS-80 Model 102 -- which I owned, 
> loved, and 
> used in the mid-80s -- is exactly as Barry described and as 
> depicted in 
> photos to which Jim Porter pointed in his link. The only flaw 
> in Barry's 
> memory of the time frame (although it is possible some 
> journalists hung 
> onto theirs into the early '90s). The Model 100 came out in 1983, and 
> the 102 a year or two later.
> 
> See http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=233
> -- 
> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor and Head of the
>    Department of Communication Studies
> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa USA 
> http://academic.luther.edu/~johnsmar/
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