Daves Blog - I post items about our "Land for Sale by Owner" & "Chantilly Farm" & "Tiny Homes " and my interest Historical Computers. This is a continuation of my Blog about my historical Computer Collection. All 13,000 items in the collection are now located at the "Computer Museum of America" in Roswell, GA. I will continue to post Computer Museum news about microcomputers, hobbyist, robotics, computing, Bugbooks, Computers in the Old Bugbook Historical Computer Museum collection, & amateur radio staion N4USA .
Monday, August 19, 2013
Vintage Computer TRS80 - Lewis Kornfield Died Friday August 16,2013 : President of Radio Shack in 1977 & produced the TRS-80 Model 1
The Radio Shack TRS 80 Model 1 computer was the computer many folks used to learn about computing in the late 70's and early 80's. It was low cost and worked right out of the box.
TRS 80 Interface Trainer
TRS 80 -1
I used the TRS -80 Model 1 for many years teaching Instrumentation and Automation at Virginia Tech & in Workshops for professional techies. Our group (The Blacksburg Group) designed an engineering / teaching system that allowed us access to all the Input / Output signals. Several books were also written about the TRS-80 in our "Blacksburg Continuing Education Series"
Radio Shack was important player for a few years in the microcomputer revolution and Lewis Kornfield made a good choice to produce the TRS - 80 Model 1 in 1977.
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