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Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...at the forefront of the PC industry in its time. The 1977 TRS-80, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores, was one of the... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
Endless, Nameless 1.0

Endless, Nameless 1.0

...my fifth-grade classroom, playing Scott Adams's Impossible Mission on a TRS-80 while the rest of us did our schoolwork. At recess we... Read more

16 May, 2012
Vintage Computing 1.0

Vintage Computing 1.0

...computers such as the Atari 400, Commodore PET 2001, Atari 800XL, RadioShack TRS-80, VIC20, ZX81 Spectrum and many more.Featuring thirteen old school computer... Read more

5 February, 2011
Cracking open the Radio Shack <endeca_term>TRS-80</endeca_term> CoCo

Cracking open the Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo

The Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer – or CoCo – was one of the first colour home... Read more

6 February, 2008 by Rupert Goodwins

The Week in Review: Fooling the tech industry

...be postponed to May. But on the other hand there was the TRS-80 Web server, the 1,000GB MP3 player and the mobile phone... Read more

4 April, 2003 by ZDNet UK
<endeca_term>TRS-80</endeca_term> Emulator for Mac OS 1.6

TRS-80 Emulator for Mac OS 1.6

The TRS-80 emulator simulates a TRS-80 Model I with an Expansion Interface... Read more

11 July, 1999

April launches fuel tech industry

...firm Xtraordinary Hosting went retro on Tuesday with the launch of its TRS-80 Model 4 platform hosting solution. Unlike many launches in the tech... Read more

1 April, 2003 by Matt Loney
Audio Overload 2.0

Audio Overload 2.0

...MOD - Commodore Amiga NSF - Nintendo NES NSFE - Nintendo NES (enhanced tags) ORC - TRS-80 Orchestra-90 PSF - Sony PlayStation PSF2 - Sony PlayStation II QSF - Capcom... Read more

30 July, 2008

The PC's alternative universe

...their way out — Xerox with its slow 820, Tandy with its ageing TRS-80 range, Lucas with its end-of-an-era NASCOM-3 — while... Read more

14 August, 2006 by Leader

Laptops still locked in the cells

...in other departments. In some ways, we've gone backwards: a 1985 TRS-80 Model 100 could run for 20 hours on one charge. Battery... Read more

19 January, 2005 by Leader

Meet the hackers

...Single Current residence: Colorado, USA Job: Independent security consultant First computer: Tandy TRS-80 Best known for: Creating computer security Web site attrition.org Martin... Read more

12 May, 2004 by Patrick Gray
Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio 1.0

Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio 1.0

...game of Santa Paravia & Fiumaccio, ported from the original BASIC code for TRS-80 and the Apple ][. If uses all of the original graphics and... Read more

29 November, 2003

Hacker's auctions stir up controversy

...his father. Although Mitnick has already sold a mobile phone and a TRS-80 pocket computer through eBay, the leading auction site canceled his auction... Read more

1 December, 2000 by Troy Wolverton
Retro Computers Trivia 1.0

Retro Computers Trivia 1.0

Atari 520 ST, Amiga 500, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, TI994, MSX, TRS 80, APPLE II do you know these words ?If yes this is... Read more

31 March, 2010
sdltrs 1.1.0

sdltrs 1.1.0

sdltrs is a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model I/III/4/4P emulator for Macintosh OSX, Windows, and... Read more

26 February, 2010

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apexwm

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Why is it that Newzealand has the guts to stand up to the USA and ask to see the evidence and we don't!

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

22 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC