Looking for TRS-80 users group
in the Ann Arbor area. 
Does such a thing exist?
("Not for myself, for a friend...")

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It just so happens that I run a BBS for the Tandy Color Computer series..
but not for the old Model I/II/III/IV's.  Which TRS-80 does your friend
have?  (The CoCo's run MC6809E's, the Model X's run Z80's)

My BBS is the Falcon's Lair, 313-429-2150, online since 1986.  (And don't
bother calling if you don't have a CoCo, aren't into the Microware OS9
operating system, or aren't a friend of mine.. I'
you'd be amazed at how many people with XT's and PS/1's keep asking "Where's
the filez, DOODEZ?!?!?!!?!"...)

I believe he has a III, and he wants to find some sort of reasonable (and 
free) wordprocessor for it.  What he has now is apparently klunky in the
extreme.

I actually do have an RS color computer.  It's somewhere down in
the basement archives.

I know someone with a Model III, he is looking for ANY useful software.
I'd like one of these old things for nostalgia reasons, but my luck just
don't work that way.

If you really, really want an old TSR-80, try Greenhill School.  At least
a couple years ago, they still had a computer lab full of TRS-80's, although
some (all?) may have been replaced with Macintoshes by now.

(Oops, that should be "Greenhills", not "Greenhill".)

Sure, I collect the stuff.  What's the number, and who do I ask for?

Dunno, it's been a while.  They should be in the phone book.  When I went
there, Mr. Weatherbee did most of the computer stuff, but that may have
changed since then.

I have a TRS-80 Model I in original condition, unupgraded, from about 1980.
16K RAM, and a cassette tape recorder for storage.  The tape recorder is still
in use, and has been physically degraded a bit accordingly.

i f anyone wants an original laptop, i have a couple Model 100s.

        Do you still have those 100s???  How much if you have them???

I have a Model 100 and a Coco3 I'd be willing to part with.

Kiwanis occasionally gets in a TRASH 80 color computer and promptly recycles
it.  With software.  Should we save any?  It is now four years later than the
date that someone was willing to part with his TRS 100.  Same for Apple IIe,
PCJr, and TI.  We could not give them away.  Commodore's still sell okay.

The Model 100 still has a following.  (These are the portable ones that ran
off dry cells and had an LCD screen.)  They're rugged, easy to carry, and
have a decent keyboard.  And they run for *hours* off ordinary batteries. 
I ran across a place on the Web a while back that still refurbishes and
sells the suckers.

Yeah, if you get a model 100 I'd buy it.

I, too, would be interested in a model 100.  I would think you'd have no 
trouble selling them.  They were pretty slick little machines.

I got mine at Kiwanis some time last year.  It's  a neat little thing, and
quite capable.  I just like to pull it out and look at it now and then.  Don't
really have a use for it.

Did you get that little mini 100 they had?  That was definitely cool.

They also threw in a tiny little Color Computer, which needs a TV for display.
Haven't even tried that thing.  Is that what you are referring to?

Yeah, maybe that was it.  Whatever it was it was darn small.

Free to a good home:

A small pile of TRS CoCo basic crap.  I've got a tiny, book-sized "Micro Color
Computer", with a little printer and some semi-related books.  I'll throw in
a 1983 TRS brochure (good for a laugh at what stuff used to cost) and a
genuwine Radio Shack datacassette recorder.  No, you won't be getting my Model
100, but I don't want to hang onto the other stuff which I don't even have
any nostalgia for.

  I'll take it. Might be interesting to putter around with.

OK.  I'll put it all in a box and contact you.

Scotts the TRS man he snagges me a model 100 from Kiwanis, works like a charm,
I just got my null serial cable for it today to upload .txt to my pc.  It's
actually useful as lighweight word processor that runs over 10 hours on 4
rechargable aa batteries, try that with your G# firewire wireless lan 
potable video studio. :-)

Hey Matt, did you find docs online for it?

Yeah I found all the manuals at a mirror of Andrew Dillers m-100 site.
See http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6310/top.html Also theModel
100 club has some good info I got my null modem cable there so I can transfer
files to my pc.  

I have a model 200 that I will let go for cheap.  It has all the manuals and
some cables too.  It's been a long time since I looked at it.

Do you have an acoutistic coupler and cable for it Klaus I might be interested
in just the acoustic coupler or mdem cable for my model 100 if it was cheap.

I don't have the acoustic coupler but I do have the the modem cable.  Scott
wants it all so he's getting it all.  As I recall, I made the modem cable
out of and old modular phone cable and a XT style keyboard connector.

Good enough do you have the piouts for the modem cable?

Not any longer.  I think the information was in the manual and Scott has
that now.

I indeed have that now.  I even have a cable I'm unlikely to use soon, so
maybe I'll just mail that.  (need to mull that over a bit first)

Update:  The 200 is here in the office, acting as a fake "EDS data" generator.
We're doing a system for a supplier to GM, and we'll be getting little blobs
of data over a serial link every few seconds.  Now what did I have lying
around with a serial port and some kind of programming language?  :)

Wow, people with stale websites who still exist...  I got paranoid about the
internal NiCd memory battery in my 200, and opened the sucker up.  Yup, it
might be starting to leak gunk, so it's going to be replaced.  Anyway, The
"Club 100" website has been pretty much static for a couple years now, but
the guy who runs it emailed back in less than a day with sources for the
battery.  
That site is:  http://www.the-dock.com/club100.html
(and it's not really "dead" yet; the classifieds are still running [and with
a humorously non-y2k-compliant date scheme; currently we're in year 101]
pretty actively)

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