TRS-80 Emulator Page

In 1978, I was just a youthful fourteen-year old. But I knew the future when I saw it, and I wanted a piece of it.

It was this year that Tandy released their first home computer, the TRS-80, via their Radio Shack stores. As soon as I saw this black and gray beauty, I knew I had to have one.

So I saved my money until I had enough to make the purchase, all the while drooling over the product catalog and making frequent visits to the local store.

Here is theTRS-80 Model I, in all its glory.

I just found the TRS-80 emulator page, which allows you to turn your computer into a TRS-80 interface. Ah, the memories. The good old days.

That machine had 4K of RAM (that\’s 4000 bytes), NO hard drive and NO floppy drive! To load and save programs, you used a cassette player. My modem was 300 baud. The fastest dialups today are 56000 baud, so that gives you an idea of how sloooooow it was.

Anyhow, I\’d like to get my hands on a working TRS-80 just to keep as a collector\’s item, but they sell for way too much on Ebay.