Soupwizard
Experienced Member
I have acquired a TRS-80 model II in pretty good shape, was used in an office so keyboard has wear, but the inside of the machine is pristine. Cards: CPU, older style floppy drive controller, 64k mem card, video/kb card. Shugart 8" floppy drive (w00t!). Came with TRS-DOS II master disk and copies, Scriptsit, and Visicalc. And a matching big daisy wheel printer (missing one of the toggle switch covers, but switch works fine. Anyone have a spare toggle cover?)
Everything I know about the model II I've learning from google searches in the last two days. What else should I know? Can anyone send me Pickles & Trout CP/M for it? (I actually met Mr. Pickles at an electronics surplus shop in Santa Barbara about 4 years ago).
I haven't fired it up yet, since I probably should disconnect the power, hook up a dead but spinning hd drive (to act as load on the switching supply), and run it a bit to see if any caps blow up. Or should I go ahead and proactively replace some caps?
Everything I know about the model II I've learning from google searches in the last two days. What else should I know? Can anyone send me Pickles & Trout CP/M for it? (I actually met Mr. Pickles at an electronics surplus shop in Santa Barbara about 4 years ago).
I haven't fired it up yet, since I probably should disconnect the power, hook up a dead but spinning hd drive (to act as load on the switching supply), and run it a bit to see if any caps blow up. Or should I go ahead and proactively replace some caps?