Pete Cetinski has provided the report which Tandy got back when it tested the Model I for RFI. The Model I was discontinued based on these findings.

You can download it here.

George Philips to the rescue AGAIN! The diskette request page has been fixed.

If you had a request in and never heard back, please re-submit!

The next TRS-80 Trash Talk live show is Saturday, July 6, 2024 at 6:00PM Pacific Daylight Time / 9:00PM Eastern Daylight Time!

You can watch on the TRS-80 Trash Talk channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXkGugvdCkpkMDylVQb9gfg.

If you want to participate in the live zoom session, reach out to trs80trashtalk at gmail dot com for information.

If you need a replacement keyboard for your TRS-80, Jay Crutti has developed a few models

You can visit Jay’s web site at https://www.jaycrutti.com/hardware-projects/tandy-trs-80-replacement-keyboards.

Jim Adams has written some articles which might be of interest to people:

• The BASIC Family Tree v1.1 (March 2024)
• TRS-80 BASIC Cross Dialects Tables v1.0 (May 2024)

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Marcel Erz’s TRS-80 RetroStack projects continue to be completed.

Read about the recently finished Model 1 case replication project here.

And peruse his other finished projects including a ‘Fake Keyboard Bezel’ case that works with a Raspberry Pi and modern USB or wireless keyboards, a mini case, and about many others here.

Sign up for his Patreon and encourage him to complete the many special projects such as a TRS-80 Model 1 Japanese Replica, an improved version of the Model 1, or for the Norcom TC-III replica – A Model 3 in the form factor of a Model I.

Marcel Erz’s RetroStack is also hosting a noteworthy project by Ven Reddy: the Model 1 Test Harness. This device utilizes the *TEST signal on the edge card connector for system testing without needing to swap ROMs. The project is still in progress, so here’s a link to follow as it’s updated: here.

Arno, Sascha, and Lawrence Kesteloot will be running the second Bay Area Tandy Meetup on June 15, 2024!

If you are interested in the meet-up, please visit this link.

L Curtis Boyle let me know that Canadian Retro Things posted two more parts of his interview with Robert Kilgus.

Part 3 covers the main part of his career with the Coco from 1979-1984, including selected as one of the few to get the earliest prototypes of the TRS-80 Color Computer, the cross development system he used for the earliest Coco programs, and developing his Coco specific programs and games. You can watch that here

Part 4 (the final part) finishes covering the Coco (including the unreleased OS-9 Scripsit from 1984) and his final home computer (multi-platform) project – and what went wrong there. And a bit of what he is following these days. You can watch that here

Ian has kindly provided a scan of the LDOS 5.3 Model 4 Interface Kit Manual!

Title: LDOS 5.3 Model 4 Interface Kit
Publisher: Misosys Inc
Year: 1987
Size: 11,218,690
Pages: 14
Notes: [Blue Cover]