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- From: stes@wcsn.csms.com (Robert Stes Stessel WCSN Manager)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: TRS80 Cheap!
- Keywords: TRS80 FORSALE
- Message-ID: <869@wcsn.csms.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 13:10:02 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: WCSN, Herald Broadcasting Synidicate, Inc.
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- I have a TRS-80 w/2 8" drives & bunch of accounting
- software. It was given to me third hand by some one who knew
- nothing about computers and who's wife told him to GET IT OUT OF
- THEIR GARAGE!
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- I plugged it in and tried it. It booted and loaded it's
- DOS from disk, but when I booted it a second time, it seemed to
- score the surface of the disk. Not really wanting to spend a lot
- of time with it, I quit before I did any more damage.
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- Bottom line, it works sort of, if you have one or three
- already and want some good spare parts, or want to fix it up as
- an additional machine, it is in basically ok shape, I just don't
- need to play with ANOTHER operating system. (I'm already more
- deeply involved with Unix, DOS, & Commodore64 than I should be!)
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- Apparently the CPU, memory (64k) and monitor are ok, but
- it seems to have a disk problem. I never got as far as checking
- the second drive.
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- I would trade it for an old dos compatable printer, a
- commodore 80 column adapter for the c64, or whatever you have
- gathering dust in your ibm or c64 closet.
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- If you have nothing to trade but want it anyway, don't
- dispair. If no one offers me anything in trade, I will give it
- away to the person with the best sob story. So if your church,
- school, club, etc. uses TRS-80's; you are a starving computer
- student; etc.; you want something for your kids to play with;
- need a boat anchor; etc.; you can come n' git it, or have it for
- the UPS from Maine. My wife wants it OUT OF OUR GARAGE!
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