fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Monday 03 May 2004 02:14 pm, Don Levey wrote: > >> I am very much wet behind the ears. >> I started with a TRS-80 model II (with the cassette), > > Well, you're old enough for your memory to be playing tricks on you; > the Model II had an 8" single floppy disk drive. > > The model I had a tape drive as standard; the model III was available > tape-only, but not too many people bought it that way. > > I owned the second TRS-80 Model I sold in San Francisco, and had it > running 10 MB hard drives before I upgraded to a LOBO. We actually had a separate, external cassette recorder attached to the machine (and no disk). I remember having to make sure the thing was connected to the mic jack for saving, and headphone jack for retrieval, and then ppushing play (or play/record) when loading or saving (not to mention manually advancing the tape past the leader before saving my little BASIC programs). -Don
