billdeg
Technician
CP/M 2.2e for TRS 80 Model II by Pickles and Trout
Made from parts from who knows how many Model II's, I assembled a working system that boots CP/M. Keyboard, screen, drives, external drive's drives all from donors. It's not that the Model II is a poor design or a cheap "Trash 80"...it's just that the original owners worked these things to death ... most Model II's saw 10 years of service before retirement and left forgotten on a warehouse shelf or at bottom of a heaps of equipment and papers...the best-known workhorse of the late 70's and into the mid 80's until finally replaced by IBM PC models.
What I'd really like to do is move a bunch of Model III software onto the II, anyone here have a best way? I suppose I could attach a serial port device and PIP files that way..I have never had a working Model II long enough to get into it.