Re: A commercial on WJIB!

[TC Cheever <tc@chaostheory.com>]

If memory serves (having had a TRS-80 Model III in a long ago & distant
life) the TRS-80 used the 5-inch disks. The larger disks (which were
actually 8 inches, I think, not 10) were used on a lot of
phototypesetting machines in the mid-70's (Varityper, Compugraphic, etc)
and since those were used in printing & publishing, maybe that's what's
in the window. The Varityper Comp/Edit machine looked a lot like a
desktop computer. 

And since this has little if anything to do with radio (well, except
that my father repaired those beasts, and many of his clients did
brochures & the like for radio stations), I'll shut up now. =)

TC

Sven Franklyn Weil wrote:
> 
> I think I've seen the thing in the window of some bookstore in Greenwich
> Village here in New York City.  Does it use those huge 10" floppies that
> were around before the 5.25" floppies?
> 
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, A. Joseph Ross wrote:
> 
> > On 18 Apr 2000,  Marc Lemay wrote:
> >
> > And well into the 386/486 era, he was still happily using his TRS-80,
> > right up until his declining health forced him to stop writing.  I think
> > the computer was actually placed on display somewhere as "Isaac Asimov's
> > Computer" after he died.
> >
> >
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