Home
Email Me


TECH STUFF

Free Programs
Podcast
PC Security
Interesting Websites
Educational Sites For Kids


SPORT

WestCoast Eagles
Fremantle Dockers
AFL
WAFL
Subiaco Football Club
Footy Goss


JUST FOR FUN

Bits and Pieces
My Photo's
My Model Railroad
The Funny Pages
Fish Bites
Webcams From Around The World
The Tandy TRS-80 My First Computer
Cricket Sites Around The World


SERIOUS STUFF

Serious Stuff

 

modeli ctra80


History:Announced at a press conference in August 3, 1977, the Tandy TRS-80 Model I was Tandy's entry into the home computer market, meant to compete head on against the Commodore PET 2001 and the Apple II.
Company management was unsure of the computer's market appeal, and intentionally kept the initial production run to 3,000 units. Tandy ended up selling 10,000 the first month and 55,000 its first year. Before its January 1981 discontinuation, Tandy sold more than 250,000 Model I's.
User data was originally stored on cassette tape. The cassette tape interface was extremely sensitive to audio volume changes, and the machine only gave the very crudest indication as to whether the correct volume was set, via a blinking character on screen when data was actually being loaded - to find the correct volume, one would sometimes have to attempt to load a program once adjusting volume until the machine picked up the data, then reset the machine, rewind the tape and attempt the load again.
To upgrade to a floppy disk based system the owner had to buy the "Expansion Interface".
There were two versions of the BASIC programming language produced for the Model I. Level I BASIC fit in 4K of ROM, and Level II BASIC fit into 12K of ROM.


trs80i trsmonitor

Specifications:
NAME TRS 80 MODEL I
MANUFACTURER Tandy Radio Shack
TYPE Home Computer
ORIGIN U.S.A.
YEAR 1977
BUILT IN LANGUAGE Basic Level 1 (4k ROM models)
Basic Level II (12k ROM models)
KEYBOARD Full-stroke keyboard, 53 Keys, optional numeric keypad
CPU Zilog Z80
SPEED 1.77 MHz
RAM 4 kb / 16 kb depending on models (up to 48 kb)
VRAM 1 kb
ROM 4 kb (Basic Level 1) or 12kb (Basic Level 2)
TEXT MODES 32 x 16, 64 x 16
GRAPHIC MODES 128 x 48
COLORS monochrome
SOUND None
I/O PORTS Monitor, cassette interface, expansion port
OS TRS DOS - NEW DOS