{"id":519,"date":"2008-11-10T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2008-11-11T09:53:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-11T14:53:35","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-model-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/519\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-model-12","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> The TRS-80 Model 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs_model12_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs_model12_small.jpg\" alt=\"TRS-80 Model 12 Ad - 1983\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>(click for full advertisement)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I actually have a TRS-80 Model 12, although I don&#8217;t have a hard drive for it.  I bought it at a flea market back in 2000-2001 for $20.  It had been used for corporate accounting, payroll, spreadsheets, etc. for some years, and it came with a bunch of 8-inch disks and a huge dot-matrix printer.  Sadly, the 8-inch drives on my unit both failed some years ago, although not before I got a chance to load up BASIC and tinker around with a spreadsheet.  I haven&#8217;t gotten around to fixing them yet, but I&#8217;ll probably give it a shot some day.<\/p>\n<p><center><em><small>[ From Popular Computing, March 1983 ]<\/small><\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion topic of the week:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s a good one: How many of you readers out there have used systems with 8-inch floppy disks?  If you have, tell us about the computer and your 8-inch floppy stories.<\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(click for full advertisement) I actually have a TRS-80 Model 12, although I don&#8217;t have a hard drive for it. I bought it at a flea market back in 2000-2001 for $20. It had been used for corporate accounting, payroll, spreadsheets, etc. for some years, and it came with a bunch of 8-inch disks and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}