Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ficc!peter
From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: TRS-80 Questions
Summary: Corrections
Message-ID: <5650@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Aug 89 14:08:52 GMT
References: <8908102238.AA12720@lognet2.af.mil>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <8908102238.AA12720@lognet2.af.mil>, gautier@LOGNET2.AF.MIL (SrA Richard A. Gautier) writes:
> There was a Model II computer that didn't last long, but I can't quite recall what it was, or the changes that made it Model II.

The model II was a business computer, and did quite well. It ran TRS-DOS and
CP/M. It was the basis for the model 16 (the first 68000-based TRS-80,
basically a model II with a coprocessor card).

> Model III was the HULKING giant that introduced disk drive options

> I believe the Model IV was their only REAL contribution to the computer

The model IV was a repackaged model III, in the new cream box instead of the
ugly silver.

The model 16/model 6000 is what's being described. At one point it was
THE most popular UNIX box out there (of course back then that wasn't saying
that much). Until fairly recently, most UNIX installations in the world
were model 16s or model 6000s running Xenix.
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