Floppy Days podcast, devoted to all types of vintage computing, recently devoted a podcast to Ian Mavric. Ian is a TRS-80 hardware genius and has done many repair videos as well as providing hardware technical support to this site and many other accomplishments.

The Floppy Days podcast can be found at http://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-76-interview-with-ian-mavric-trs-80.

The podcast also points to the following sites:

• Mav’s web site – http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/
• To order FreHD parts – http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator
• To order FreHD Clearly Superior sets – http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/clearlysuperior/
• TRS-80 Model 4 Hi-Res boards – http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/hires/hires.htm
• Fred Vecoven, Inventor of FreHD – http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html

TRS-80 Trash Talk, a monthly podcast, has released Episode 16. The description is: In this episode the Trash Talkers are back from summer vacation to wish the TRS-80 a happy 40th birthday. In the first segment, we talk about Tandy Assembly, VCFMW, TRS-XENIX, the Tandy 3, PC-1 and the Network 4. In the second segment, Randy Kindig interviews trs-80.com’s Ira Goldklang.

The TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast can be found at www.trs80trashtalk.com.

While not TRS-80 related, it seems the DMK format is catching on. A French developer has written a command line utility to take DMK images of MSX disks, and convert them into a format usable by a SuperCard Pro device (which I suspect is something MSX related). Source is included if you want to have a look. The page can be found at http://lhalter.free.fr/mgr/

Also, the 80 Microcomputing Magazines and the Model 100 from the below posts are STILL available for those able to do local pickup.

While the free Model 100 (right below) is STILL available, another person is offering most of the 80 Microcomputing magazines for free for local pickup in the St. Paul Minneapolis area.

As always, to keep away those would say “hey, would you ship” (when the above states local pickup only), please contact me at freetrs@trs-80.com if you can do a local pickup and I will relay in the order received.

Mike Gore, author of Intersoft C v2.5 has ok’d downloads of his software and manual. Thank you, Mike!

John Waitkus has turned over his TRS-80 software collection for archiving; thank you so much John!

If any of John’s old crew happens to read this, he would love to hear from you — please reach out to him at john at cws dash computersolutions dot com

Free for local pickup in Thousand Oaks, California: Two complete Model I systems + LNW expansion kit. Original owner.

As always, to keep away those would say “hey, would you ship” (when the above states local pickup only), please contact me at trs-80.com if you can do a local pickup and I will relay in the order received.

As Rick battles a zombie in the pit at the home of the Scavengers, a Model 3 (or 4) can be seen. He later picks it up and hits the zombie with it!