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 […]
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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 […]