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Woo hoo - Collection Completed!! TRS-80 inbound

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Re: Woo hoo - Collection Completed!! TRS-80 inbound

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The only parts that are harder to come by are the cmos ones but you can use 74hc and maybe the 74ac parts and I power transistors can still be had


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Tomswork wrote: Thu Sep 29, 2022 10:50 pm The only parts that are harder to come by are the cmos ones but you can use 74hc and maybe the 74ac parts and I power transistors can still be had


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TBH everything so far has been 74LS, my only issue has its always something I don't have stock of.
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Managed to bag these today for £5 plus postage:

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The book on the left is of great interest as I owned a copy when younger, having bought it thinking it was a 'general' book on basic and not realising I really needed a TRS-80 to go with it.

But, hey ho, at least once the TRS is properly up and running I'll at least have one this time :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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And then to find a tape player from tandy
And the very rare model 1 monitor for Europe


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Tomswork wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 10:21 pm And then to find a tape player from tandy
And the very rare model 1 monitor for Europe


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And an expansion unit...
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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You really are going all out on this TRS80 @rubber_jonnie. Will be a nice complete collection once done.
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Icky wrote: Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:35 am You really are going all out on this TRS80 @rubber_jonnie. Will be a nice complete collection once done.
I'm very pleased with it, it's taken quite a while to get there :)
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
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Disappointingly, no spares arrived in the post today. In fact no post at all, which was even more annoying because the strikes were on Friday/Saturday. Grr, fingers crossed for tomorrow.
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800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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I was wondering about that. What a pain.
Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
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stephen_usher wrote: Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:24 pm I was wondering about that. What a pain.
It certainly is :(
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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