I still have a TRS-80 Model 100 somewhere. The first usable laptop. The backup device was a cassette tape machine. A built-in 300 baud modem. Mine had (I think) 64K of memory, about enough to hold the OS and a few apps, and about 8 pages of memos.

I still have a TRS-80 Model 100 somewhere. The first usable laptop. The backup device was a cassette tape machine. A built-in 300 baud modem. Mine had (I think) 64K of memory, about enough to hold the OS and a few apps, and about 8 pages of memos.

Source: 2087

23 August 2012 304 thisistheverge
laptopstrs 80 model 100

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