"Terry Yager" wrote:
>>> I've got a couple of TRS-80 Model I machines lying
>>> around!
I don't have any of the later models yet.
>>> I'd really love to get a Model II with an external
>>> drive enclosure. It would take up a bit of space,
>>> though. . .
>> That would be okay to have a system like that as long
>> as you have the 8" disks & don't mind using the
>> TRSDOS system. For some reason I'm reading that
>> their systems don't support CP/M.
>> Or I suppose that you can get another drive which
>> isn't 8"?
>> A friend of mine, his Dad had a system at work which
>> was like this & used it at work. I'm not sure if it was
>> the Model 2 or the Model 16 since they are so simular
>> (externally & I only ever heard about this system).
>> But they were still using it in the early '90s, though
>> they had to pay heaps for those 8" disks! ;-) Back
>> then it was around 100 bucks for a box of 10!
> Oh yes, the model II supported CP/M. I used to have
> 3 different "flavors" of CP/M for mine including Pickles
> & Trout, Lifeboat and one other version that the name
> of eludes me at the moment. Of course, the CP/M on
> the TRS-80s was not "standard" CP/M, as they kept
> thier rom in low memory so that CP/M had to relocate
> thier sacred "page zero" to higher memory. There
> are some other differences I forget right now, but
> they would run *most* standard CP/M transients. The
> P&T CP/M is still one of my favorites of all time (along
> with Montezuma Micro, which also ran on TRS-80
> machines). It was a very full-featured distribution with
> lots of utilities, etc.
Oh okay, those updates would have came after the book
I have was published, since it stated it had a problem
with CP/M. But someone would have at least made sure
that it was available.
> Of course, even if you were stuck with just Trsdos, you
> weren't that bad off. It is a very good operating
> system in it's own rights.
Well yeah, for all I know Erik has his so that he can play
around with TRSDOS just as I play around with CP/M.
> As for 8" disks, I'm glad I have a big box fulla them
> stashed away somewheres.
Safely stored away I hope.
Cheers,
CP/M User.