Do you have TRS-80 Disks or Tapes?
If you have Model I, III or 4 TRS-80 disks lying around, you may want to think about sending them in. If the data is intact, I can read them into “virtual disk files” (DMK files) which will serve not only to archive the disk forever, but would also allow you to use those virtual disks in an emulator on your current computer, and to extract the data to your current computer if you wanted to.
The media on these disks and tapes were not intended to hold data for 35+ years and the data will not last forever. If you do have disks lying around, I would encourage you to contact me.
Frequently asked questions can be answered here!.
Is there an eBay store for TRS-80's?
Yes
Trash Talk Podcaster Ian Mavric has been on eBay for more than 18 years also with 100% feedback and a long history with TRS-80s going back to the 1980s. Timely, reliable shipping from Australia. Check out the store HERE!.
Dale Frantz has had his "TRS80sAndMore" store on eBay for 18 years, with 100% positive feeback and 100% money back guarantee, but at the moment it only seems to contain Funco bobbles. Check out the store HERE!.
The 1982 Radio Shack computer catalog has this for $2495 and the 1983 catalog has it for $2295. Looks like you got better deal with a dealer.
48K? 48K?????
I bought mine in about 1981 and I could barely afford the base 16K model.
48K? OMG.
In hindsight, I doubt any of us were able to put to use much more than 16K. I wrote assembler and basic stuff, no hard drives, and only once used up 16K. I had to come up with clever compression code to fit my arrays into the top of memory, where I could hide them via the mem size? value.
I still have the printed out code of that program.
A few years ago, I picked up an old, never opened (original seals intact), 48K, >>>dual disc drive<< Model III for about $200. Works perfectly. The only problem is that my original code was intended for non disc TRS-DOS, so my clever memory var pointers and storing stuff doesn't work, and I can't find any manuals nowadays that let me change my original varptr values. Oh well. I guess I should move on now, right?
Hugs to all from then.