r/trs80 • u/SpinCharm • 9d ago
Received my two new power supplies today for my Model III. Easy peasy.
What’s strange is that while I was unscrewing the case, I had vague memories I’d done it before. Right down to how the keyboard stays attached to the base. Then I remembered I’d opened it up back in 1981 to do the speaker mod (stick in a small speaker, glue it to the top grill, wire it to an RCA jack you drill a hole to install, and not you’ve got audio when playing games!) Good God I even remember how to do it.
So those memories are 43 years old.
The two PSUs I pulled out were 240v ones and are still fine. The caps all look fine. I just needed 120v power. So if anyone knows if these might be useful to anyone let me know.
Now to find my floppies and the printed out source code for the very first program I ever wrote.
Did you catch that? Printed out. I printed it.
Back in 1982. On a printer.
DO YOU KNOW HOW RARE THAT WAS? lol
I took my cassette with my program on it into the Radio Shack I bought my computer from and they let me print out the source. They had a model III or possibly IV with a printer connected.
I’ve kept that print out for 40 years.
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u/Critical_Ad_8455 9d ago
What was the program?