1979- TRS-80 Model II (3/2024)

Object/Artifact

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VintageComputer.Gallery

Name/Title

1979- TRS-80 Model II (3/2024)

Tags

Radio Shack

Description

1979- The TRS-80 model II, is the obscure brother of the TRS-80 family. Many internet pages deal with the models 1,3 and 4 but omit the model 2... This is maybe because the TRS-80 Model 2 was intended to be a business computer for use in offices and labs. Thus it is equiped with a full height Shugart 8'' drive with a capacity of 500k which is a lot compared to the 87k offered by the TRS-80 Model 1 system disk. It is also possible to connect up to 4 floppy disk units, so you could have 2MB disk space online ! It runs under TRSDOS, but can also achieve CP/M compatibility. Options for the machine included a hard disk controller, an arcnet network card, a graphics card and a 6 MHz 68000 board set with extra memory (up to 512K) so it could run XENIX.

Acquisition

Acquisition Method

EBay

Date

Oct 18, 2007