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11 unusual facts about TRS


Amadhia Albee

She bought her first computer when she was 10 years old (Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer) from saving a year's worth of can/bottle refunds.

Cassette magazine

Since the common data storage medium of the earliest home computers was the audio cassette, the first magazine published on a physical computer medium was cassette magazine; CLOAD magazine, for the Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, began publication in 1978, named after the command to load a program from cassette on that computer system.

Coco3

TRS-80 Color Computer, the third version of a home computer launched by Radio shack

IBM System/36 BASIC

System/36 BASIC was first offered in 1983, and as such, contained many of the trappings that a BASIC program would have encountered in the time period of the IBM PC, the Commodore 64, the VIC-20, the TRS-80, or many other offerings of the Seventies and early Eighties.

Joel Billings

Designed for the TRS-80 and Apple II home computers, it is viewed as the first computer war game ever published.

Kyocera

Shortly afterward, Kyocera introduced one of the first portable, battery-powered laptop computers, sold in the U.S. as the Tandy Model 100, which featured an LCD screen and telephone-modem data transfer capability.

Programma International

Established in the late 1970s by David Gordon, it published a line of approximately 300 game, programming utility, and office productivity products for the Apple II, Commodore PET, TRS-80 and other personal computer systems.

Trash80

The name "Trash80" is a reference to a slang term for the Tandy / Radio Shack computer model (now defunct) TRS-80 (model 1/2/3/4/4p).

TRS-80 Color Computer

The TRS-80 Color Computer started out as a joint venture between Tandy Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas and Motorola Semiconductor, Inc. of Austin, to develop a low cost home computer in 1977.

TRS-80 Model 100

The Model 100 was promoted as being able to run up to 20 hours and maintain memory up to 30 days on a set of four alkaline AA batteries.

TRS-DOS

Although MS-DOS owes its heritage most closely to CP/M and thence to TOPS-10, many of the file manipulation commands are very similar to those of TRS-DOS.


Atari 5200

However, as the system was reaching completion, the personal computer revolution was starting with the release of machines like the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II.

Christian video game

The programs were intended to work in any version of BASIC, but the book included tips for adapting the programs for the Apple II, Atari 400/800, Commodore VIC-20/64, and TRS-80, as well as extending and customising the programs to make them more interesting.

Chromasette

Chromasette was the first cassette-based TRS-80 Color Computer magazine produced by David Lagerquist and was an offshoot of CLOAD magazine.

Craft access system

The developer, Muchiri Motilewa, designed and coded the proof-of-concept prototype on a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 computer in BASIC and a DEC VAX-11/780 Unix machine in C and Shell.

Dragon Data

These computers, the Dragon 32 and Dragon 64, strongly resembled the Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer ("CoCo")—both followed a standard Motorola datasheet configuration for the three key components (CPU, SAM and VDG).

Early 2011 Telangana protests

Three TRS activists who in the early hours of 10 March burnt the statue of ‘Telangana Talli' in Medak district were arrested.

Elections in Andhra Pradesh

The state has an ongoing sub-regionalist Telangana movement with the Telangana Rashtra Samithi(TRS) being formed in 2001 on this platform.

ESoft

eSoft was founded by Philip L. Becker in 1984 and started out making and selling the TBBS (bulletin board system) initially targeted at RadioShack TRS-80 CP/M machines, but later ported to IBM-PC computers.

Exatron Stringy Floppy

According to Embedded Systems magazine the Exatron Stringy Floppy used Manchester encoding, achieving 14K read-write speeds and the code controlling the device was developed by Li-Chen Wang (who also wrote a Tiny BASIC, the basis for the TRS-80 Model I Level I BASIC.)

Flodoard

Steven Fanning and Bernard S. Bachrach (trs.), The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966.

Intelligent dance music

Another burgeoning scene was the Chicago/Milwaukee area, with labels such as Addict, Chocolate Industries, Hefty and Zod supporting artists like Doormouse, Trs-80 and Emotional Joystick.

Kilobaud Microcomputing

After the success of kilobaud, Wayne Green diversified with magazines targeted to specific brands of home computers, such as 80-Microcomputing (also known as 80-Micro) a Magazine for TRS-80 users, InCider a magazine for Apple II users, Hot CoCo a magazine for TRS-80 Color Computers, RUN a magazine for Commodore 64 users and many others.

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3

In addition two ORO-57K rocket launchers each with 16 55 mm ARS-57 (S-5) unguided rockets or two 190 mm TRS-190 unguided rockets or two 212 mm ARS-212 unguided rockets or two 250 kg bombs could be carried on pylons under the wing.

Mostek

The Z80 eventually became the most popular microcomputer family as it was used in millions of embedded devices as well as in many home computers and computers using the de facto standard CP/M operating system, such as the Osborne, Kaypro, and TRS-80 models.

Practical Computing

Initially it covered a broad range of systems including Commodore PETs and the Tandy TRS-80 as well as single-board computers such as the UK101 and Nascom 2.

Scripsit

Isaac Asimov used Scripsit running on a TRS-80 Model II Computer for over nine years, and wrote over 11 million words with the program.

Shake Hands with Danger

Shake Hands with Danger is the sixth album by the Chicago based electronica group TRS-80.

Star Warrior

Star Warrior is a 1980 science fiction role-playing video game written and published by Automated Simulations (later known as Epyx) for the Apple II, TRS-80, and Atari home computers.

Strategic Simulations, Inc.

The company was founded by Joel Billings, a wargame enthusiast, who in summer 1979 saw the possibility of using the new home computers such as the TRS-80 for wargames.

Teacher Retirement System of Texas

TRS administers a defined benefit retirement plan that is a qualified pension trust under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Telangana Jagarana Sena

TRS leader A. Narendra has however stated that TJS are willing to take up AK-47s in the struggle for Telangana statehood, a statement that provoked criminal charges against him.

ThalesRaytheonSystems

Thales-Raytheon Systems Company LLC (ThalesRaytheonSystems or TRS) is an aerospace and defence company co-headquartered in Massy, Paris, France and Fullerton, California, United States, and a 50:50 joint venture between Raytheon and Thales Group.

TJAC

The TRS, BJP, and New Democratic Party are presently its members.

Total revenue share

Total revenue share (trs) represents the percentage of direct cost associated with revenue.

TRS Consulting

Prior to founding TRS, Stroupe worked for Oracle Corporation, providing both core and applications senior database administration for the National Systems Consulting Group as well as the US intelligence consulting divisions for SAIC and BAE Systems.