Site News (2000-2003)

January 1, 2000 Site Updates: Happy New Year!! I wish you all the best in the coming year, and I thank you all for your support of the site over these past few years! Right now I am in Las Vegas – one of the few cities that can get away with charging $100 per […]

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Site News (1997-1999)

May 29, 1997 (Obviously), a new News function has been added. May 29, 1997 A new emulator, written by Mike Riley has been placed on the TRS-80 Emulator page, and some bad links have been removed. May 29, 1997 I have added two more pieces of software to the Model III page – Toxic Dump […]

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Site News (2013-2018)

January 9, 2013 – New Cover, Thanks to Bob Beatty Magnetic Bulk EraserPages: 1Year: UnknownPublisher: Radio Shack January 9, 2013 – New Covers, Thanks to David Sutherland Title: Bowker Bantam 1984 Complete Sourcebook of Personal ComputingYear: 1983Publisher: XeroxPages: 660 Title: InfoWorld’s Essential Guide to the TRS-80Year: 1984Publisher: Popular ComputingPages: 228 Title: Source Book of Free and Low-Cost Software, […]

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Guestbook (2006-2010)

TRS-80.com Guestbook – 2006-2010 50 Name: Lynn Scherzinger – mythrilgirl@gmail.com Date: Wed 24 Nov 2010 11:59:52 AM EST Subject: How I wish I had my old dos-based computer again! Ira, this is truly a great stroll down memory lane! I am going to see if I have some old TRS-80 commercials for you in my […]

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Site News (2010-2012)

January 14, 2010 – Site Maintenance Sorry for the lack of recent updates, I have been struggling with the (apparently well-known) problem of WordPress 2.9 requiring MySQL 5, but the site having been set up with MySQL 4. This might not otherwise be a problem if my host didn’t include a 2MB maximum on MySQL […]

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Site News (2009)

January 12, 2009 – New 80 Micro Horacio has provided another 80 Micro, and the data for Issue 97 has been added to the 80 Micro 1988 web page, and the searchable 80 Micro Table-Of-Contents database. This brings the count up to 98 out of 101 with only three (3) issues from 1998 remaining. Thank […]

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Site News (2007-2009)

May 16, 2007 – What’s Up With The Changes? As many of you have no doubt noticed, I have scaled back the site to focus on information regarding the various home TRS-80 models and emulators and utilities related thereto. I know that people are curious as to why the dramatic shift was made. The bottom […]

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TRS-80 Tips and Tricks – Tape and File Formats/Structures

Page Index: Tape Structures Level I Tape Format Level II BASIC File Tape Format System Tape Format Editor/Assembler Source Tape Format File Structures CMD File Format Editor/Assembler Source File Format SuperSCRIPSIT Document Files DSK/JV1/JV3 File Structure DMK File Structure Level I Tape Format (Model I and III) Leader   A5 Sync Byte MSB MSB of […]

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Hardware – Floppy Drive

Drive Replacement for a REAL Model I/III/4 This page covers the modern hardware which can be used to replace Floppy Drives in a real TRS-80. Floppy-80:  Floppy Disk Replacement (uses SD Card) HxC:  Floppy Disk Replacement (uses SD Card) MXS:  TRS-80 Modular eXpansion System Floppy-80 for a REAL Model III / 4NGA Click to Enlarge For those out […]

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Using a Modern Day Hardware In Lieu of Real TRS-80 Parts

Introduction There are a number of solutions, hardware and software, which will allow modern day hardware to function as a replacement for original TRS-80 hardware, or to otherwise help it along. This could take the form of having the PC act as a fake cassette player, fake disk drive, emulated floppy/hard drive (attachable to a […]

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