{"id":467,"date":"2008-06-03T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=467"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:36:58","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T16:36:58","slug":"inside-a-classic-the-trs-80-model-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/467\/inside-a-classic-the-trs-80-model-100","title":{"rendered":"Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,146496\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='\/wp-content\/pcworld_model100.jpg' alt='Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100 on PC World' class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of you might remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/443\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIc teardown<\/a> I did for PC World back in March.  Now it&#8217;s June, and my workbench is back in the spotlight again.  This time I dissected the venerable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,146496\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a> laptop computer, which happened to turn 25 this year.  Below, I&#8217;ve posted an excerpt from the slideshow.  I  hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-five years ago, Radio Shack released the first wildly successful laptop computer in the United States. The TRS-80 Model 100 was simple, rugged, plentiful, and reliable, selling over six million units during its eight-year life span. With ample battery life, light weight (about 3 pounds), compact size, instant-on capability, and a small suite of built-in applications, the Model 100 served as the portable computing workhorse of its day. Bill Gates&#8217; also ranks it as one of his favorite computers of all time, in large part because he and a friend  wrote the firmware it uses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you might remember the Apple IIc teardown I did for PC World back in March. Now it&#8217;s June, and my workbench is back in the spotlight again. This time I dissected the venerable TRS-80 Model 100 laptop computer, which happened to turn 25 this year. Below, I&#8217;ve posted an excerpt from the slideshow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16,21,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-computer-design","category-news-current-events","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}