Thursday, November 24, 2016

Episode 11

These are the show notes for Episode 11 of TRS-80 Trash Talk

Direct Episode Link:  https://traffic.libsyn.com/0039a239-f654-4839-9e99-4bbcaed9abb3/31083.mp3

Show Title
  • Episode 11 - Pulling TRS-80s Out of the Attic

Trash Talkers
  • Peter Cetinski
  • Ian Mavric
  • Mike Rowen
  • Neil Blanchard

News

Pete C. discusses the DREM Hard Drive emulator
http://www.drem.info

David Gesswin's MFM Hard Disk Reader/Emulator
http://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml

Tandy Dumpster Rescue
http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?54679-Tandy-Dumpster-Rescue

Mike R. introduced Tandy Assembly, a new Tandy computer focused event to take place in October 2017.


George Phillips has updated zmac to be more MRAS compliant.
http://members.shaw.ca/gp2000/zmac.html

Reminder about TRS8Bit's 2016 Competition - Single line BASIC programming
http://www.fabsitesuk.com/tandy/trs8bit1003.pdf

Mav has released a Coco floppy disk controller replacement named RE-FD502
http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/cocos

Pete C. is working on TRS-Pic...a Google Images browser for MISE and M3SE equipped TRS-80s
https://youtu.be/f5amgMOAwRY


Retro Commercial

The premier of the first new TRS-80 retro commercial by Mike R. and Peter C.  This one is for the 1977 introduction of the first TRS-80 before it was even known as the Model I.


Main Topic

"What to do when pulling your TRS-80 out of the attic"

The trash talkers discussed all the steps you should take when trying to use a TRS-80 that has been sitting in an attic/basement/closet for many years.