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July 20, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Ira — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:13:51 +0000

July 20, 2010 – TRS-80 Virtual Floppy Disk Manager Updated

Miguel Dutra has released v0.6 of his Command Line version of his Virtual Disk Manager utility for Windows. This is a small utility which allows you to access virtual TRS-80 disks at a file level, as if they were normal PC disks.

It appears that this utility can read all known TRS-80 DOS’s except for (1) CPM and (2) anything made by Percom.

Explanations and the program can be found on Miguel’s web site, on the DSK and DMK Image Utilities page, or HERE.

The new version brings:

* Write-capable
* Fixed a bug which caused it to read an invalid sector when the file size exceeded one disk track.

July 11, 2010 – New addition to the TRS-80.com Family

Ira — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:00:51 +0000

July 11, 2010 – New addition to the TRS-80.com Family
Although not TRS-80 related, I would like to announce the newest member of the TRS-80.com family … a 4 week old blue eyed siamese/tabby mix (a rescue) …

July 8, 2010 – Orchestra/90-PC Updated

Ira — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:05:53 +0000

July 8, 2010 – Orchestra/90-PC Updated

Jon Bokelman, creator of the ORCH-80/85/90, has updated his Orchestra/90-PC program to v2.0.

For those who don’t know, Orchestra-90/PC is a simple, no-frills program that plays original Orchestra-80/85/90 and Piano-85/90 ASCII files on a PC using a sound card. It is launched from the command line.

The main change is that a new command line switch, “-w filename” has been added to output the ORC file to a WAV file of filename filename.
A readme file is included in the archive

Orchestra-90/PC can be downloaded from the Orchestra 80/85/90 page or from right here.

June 28, 2010 – Vintage Computer Festival Southwest

Ira — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:36:10 +0000

June 28, 2010 – Vintage Computer Festival Southwest

A. G. (Gil) Carrick, the Director of the Museum of Information Technology at Arlington, has asked that I post the following about the upcoming Vintage Computer Festival Southwest …

The 1st annual Vintage Computer Festival Southwest will be held August 7th and 8th, in the Rio Grande Ballroom, in the E.H. Hereford University Center, University of Texas Arlington. The event is sponsored by the Museum of Information Technology at Arlington, the UTA College of Engineering, the UTA Office of Information Technology and Vintage Tech. The VCF is an international event that celebrates the history of computing. There have been VCFs at several locations since 1997.

The mission of the VCF is to promote the preservation of early computers by allowing people to experience the technologies, people and stories that embody the remarkable tale of the computer revolution. Southern US companies played a large role in the early days of the computer industry and the VCF Southwest hopes to focus on their contributions.

VCF is not a swap meet, but you will have a chance to buy things or even come home with prizes. There will be speakers and videos each morning, exhibits each afternoon, and special events throughout the weekend. More details about the schedule will be available soon.

The VCF is held indoors, rain or shine. Admission is $10 for one day, $15 for both days, and free for ages 17 and younger. Parking is free. Hours are 9 A.M. – 5 P.M. on both Saturday and Sunday.

Their web page giving more details about the event is at http://mit-a.com/VCF1.shtml.

June 24, 2010 – DISK REQUESTS ARE OFFLINE

Ira — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:40:06 +0000

~~June 24, 2010 – DISK REQUESTS ARE OFFLINE~~
UPDATE 3: Ebay drives are in; disk requests are back online.

UPDATE 2: I am limping along right now on a drive which may or may not be good. It is entirely possible that it is good, but the disk set remains bad. I will hold off restoring the link to the Disk Requests until the new drives come in.

~~UPDATE 1: I have now spent a fairly decent amount of money to acquire 4 floppy drives (will they work, who knows) on eBay.~~

A particularly dirty set of disks sent to me for conversion has knocked my disk drive out; and my attempts to use spares are proving futile. I will not be able to convert disks or make DOS disks until this has been resolved.

June 23, 2010 – Update to TRS32 Emulator

Ira — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:05:10 +0000

June 23, 2010 – Update to TRS32 Emulator

Matthew Reed has updated his wonderful TRS32 Emulator to v1.24. This update includes:

Eliminated “Parity error during read” errors sometimes generated by NEWDOS/80 while formatting double-sided virtual disks

Corrected behavior when pasting TAB characters

The updated emulator can be downloaded from Matthew Reed’s Download Page, the TRS-80.com emulator page, or directly right here

June 9, 2010 – TRS-80 MODEL III and MODEL 4 Free for Local Pickup

Ira — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:59:53 +0000

June 9, 2010 – TRS-80 MODEL III and MODEL 4 Free for Local Pickup
~~There is a TRS-80 Model III and Model 4 which are free for pickup (NO SHIPPING) in Chattanooga, TN.~~ ~~As always, first come, first served (through emailing me only – not through usenet postings). If you are willing to pickup, please let me know, and I will put you in contact with the donator.~~

May 15, 2010 – New Book (Cover) Thanks To Mike Ballantyne

Ira — Sun, 16 May 2010 00:57:20 +0000

May 15, 2010 – New Book (Cover) Thanks To Mike Ballantyne
		Title: TRS-80 Pocket Handbook Year: 1982 Author: William Barden Publisher: Radio Shack

May 7, 2010 – New Hardware Manuals (Covers) Thanks To Pascal Holdry

Ira — Sun, 09 May 2010 00:20:09 +0000

May 7, 2010 – New Hardware Manuals (Covers) Thanks To Pascal Holdry
		Video Display (European) Pages: 12 Year: Unknown TOSEC: Video Display (19xx)(Tandy)(Eu) Cat: 26-9201A Publisher: Tandy

		MDX-2 Interface Expansion Board v1.6 Pages: 62 Year: 1980 TOSEC: MDX-2 Interface Expansion Board v1.6 (1980)(Micro-Design) Publisher: Micro-Design

May 7, 2010 – New TRACE Covers Thanks To Pascal Holdry

Ira — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:50:22 +0000

May 7, 2010 – New TRACE Covers Thanks To Pascal Holdry
Pascal Holdry has provided the missing three TRACE MAGAZINES, and their information has been added to the TRS-80 Magazine Table of Contents Search. Thanks Pascal!