{"id":853,"date":"2012-04-02T14:40:07","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T19:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2012-04-03T14:49:34","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:49:34","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-the-ipad-of-the-1980s-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/853\/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-ipad-of-the-1980s-2","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> TRS-80 Model 100 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_model100_diskvideo_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/trs80_model100_diskvideo_small.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 Disk-Video Interface Ad - 1984\" class=\"centered\"\/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>You can&#8217;t tell from the photo, but this table is actually 200 feet wide.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since I bought my first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/855\" target=\"_blank\">Model 100<\/a> over a decade ago, I&#8217;ve always wanted the TRS-80 Model 100 Disk\/Video Interface (a device we see here in this 1984 advertisement) to go with it.  The interface not only allows you to hook your Model 100 to a TV set or monitor (80 x 25 text display!) but it also provides two floppy disk drives on which you can store your data.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, that&#8217;s quite an expansion for a computer with an 8 x 40 character display and minimal RAM-based user storage that loses its contents with battery failure.  It essentially converts the Model 100 &#8212; which is a light, portable machine &#8212; into a desktop PC.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From BYTE Magazine, April 1984, rear cover ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic of the Week:<\/strong> Have you ever set up a desktop computer on your kitchen table?  Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t tell from the photo, but this table is actually 200 feet wide. Since I bought my first Model 100 over a decade ago, I&#8217;ve always wanted the TRS-80 Model 100 Disk\/Video Interface (a device we see here in this 1984 advertisement) to go with it. The interface not only allows you to hook [&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-853","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\/853","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=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}