Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Jimmy

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:41:03 +0000

Yeah, I bought my dad a computer for Christmas one year. He and I went down to the comp store and picked out an affordable computer. My dad is near 70 years old and had never used a computer. When we got home I put it together and turned it on. After the next 2 hours of instruction my dad finally was able to power the comp up by himself. I went home that day thinking, oh no, what have I done…. what a a waiste of money. However, within 2 weeks my dad had taught himself how to surf the internet and set up and receive email. He is still no comp wiz by any stretch but is able to use the computer for much more than I ever thought possible after that first day.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Jake

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:13:01 +0000

The two periphrials I mentioned are the REX, and NADSBox. The NADSBox (New Age Digital Storage Box) is a serial SD card reader, that emulates the Tandy Portable Disk Drive (2). You can read and write to a standard SD card, and I think it will work on machines other than the M100, M102, and M200. The REX is a device that fits in the Option ROM slot of the Model 100, and allows for multiple banks of emulated RAM or ROM in flash memory. More info about both can be found at www.club100.org .

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Moondog

Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:06:50 +0000

If buying for one’s self counts, I bought myself an Asus eee 701 4G two years ago.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Benj Edwards

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:35:45 +0000

That sounds cool, Jake. Can you tell us more about those two new peripherals you mentioned?

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Geoff V.

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:23:39 +0000

What a great machine. Before the Gameboy, this was the eater of AA batteries in my house.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Jake

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:59:59 +0000

I have two Model 100s myself. They are WONDERFUL machines. They’re also somewhat easy to obtain, so I highly reccomend that anyone that collects vintage computers and uses them on a daily basis gets one of these. Two great periphrials just came out, and it will soon be able to use the Model 10X as a portable CP/M machine!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Give The Gift of TRS by: Jurgi

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:03:33 +0000

Hm, my father bought me Atari XE, not exactly for Christmas, but before it, so it may be considered as a Christmas gift. And one year later I bought myself disk drive for my Atari. It was Polish SN-360, very rare model even in Poland. And still, after 18 years, it works like new one.