Heart transplant for my TRS-80 PC

With the keyboard re-assembled I needed to figure out if all of the keys were working.  To test this I plugged the keyboard back into the base unit and main motherboard and fired it up.  Lucky for me, all was working again.  So to test all the keys I wrote short program to show the […]

TRS-80 PC: Disassembly!

Time to disassemble this TRS-80 Model 4 and figure out all of the problems I have to solve.  I already figured out: the CRT bezel is cracked the keyboard is missing a couple of keys the remaining keys have a connection problem and don’t work the case is very dirty and grungy So the first […]

Building my Retro TRS-80 PC

80s Retro I am am a kid of the 80s.  I grew up on music from Blondie, Rush and The Police.  The 80s were a great time to be a teen, especially a nerd teen.  MTV was born (as a music channel, not reality TV), Dungeons and Dragons swept the nation and home computers started to […]