Just in time for Xmas 😉

#Tandy #Model100 #Retrocomputing

Blasts from the past!

I just found my *TRS-80 Model 100 Portable Computer* (to give it its full name) in a box while attempting to do some de-cluttering. I thought I'd lost this computer in one of my many moves. I did quite a bit of my PhD (writing mostly but also some coding and, of course, connecting to the university systems via its built-in 300 baud modem) using this wee computer. I have some fond memories of using this computer.

Must find some AA batteries and see if it still works. No reason why it shouldn't?

I also found my first "proper" laptop, a Toshiba T1000SE. I used to use this in my 1 hour each way daily rail commute to work in Scotland.

I wonder what else I'll find?

Question now: what do I do with these computers? Suggestions welcome!

#TRS80 #RadioShack #Model100 #TRS80Model100 #ToshibaT1000SE #RetroComputing

Today I finished adding the double word set to MFORTH (A #forth OptROM for the #TRS80 #Model100). Something I wanted 3 years ago when I was just trying to learn the language.

If anyone wants to give it a try:
https://github.com/AbortRetryFail/MFORTH

I treated myself to a walnut model100 with blank black key caps - it arrived today and: wow, is this a beauty

I hope I can transfer my model01 layout/color settings without recreating it key for key; for now I get a javascript bug from chrysalis - filed a report - fingers crossed :-)

#keyboardio #model100

Lo and behold! One of my favourite portables from the 80s, the #TRS80 #Model100 get's a new game: #BaldursGate III:

https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/baldurs-gate-iii-comes-to-the-trs-80-model-100/

#RetroGaming #RetroComputing

Because my bud Ben is porting it to every BASIC in sight, I spent half the night messing with ROG, my trs80 model 100 roguelike.

Last looked at in 2016.... and it's in BASIC.... made by a Past Me who was cranky about the programming rules being preached at him by CS profs.

"Don't write big projects in BASIC" turns out to be a pretty good rule, actually. 🤗

#TRS80 #M100 #ModelT #Rog #RogueLike #Model100

When our kids were small they were amused by a BASIC program that I wrote on my first laptop, an NEC PC8201A, which beeped when keys were pressed. I'm hoping that our grandchild will also be amused by this contraption beeping at him when he presses keys.

These are fabulously reliable computers and this one still works exactly as it did when it was new 40 years ago. However it might not still work had I not spotted a leaking nicad backup battery about 15 years ago and replaced it.

The clock is not Y2K compatible so I've set the date to 1923. It's possible to modify the ROM to replace "19" with "20", but I don't think I'll ever bother with that.
https://hembrow.eu/personal/necpc8201a.html
#retrocomputing #NECPC8201A #oldcomputer #BASIC #8085 #Model100