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From: 940se@MATHER1.AF.MIL (Pete Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re:  TRS-80 Questions
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Date: 14 Aug 89 15:20:27 GMT
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gautier@lognet2.af.mil (SrA Richard A. Gautier) says:
 
>There was a Model II computer that didn't last long, but I can't quite recall w
hat it was, or the changes that made it Model II.
 
The TRS-80 II was a Z-80 machine with one or two 8-inch floppies and
TRSDOS operating system.  The Air Force bought Northstars for the
active duty SAC units for flight planning, and celestial navigation
training.  The Air National Guard folks who operate KC-135 aircraft
bought TRS-80 IIs for the same chores because they felt that they
were better off from a maintenance standpoint with a machine which
could be hauled to the corner Radio Shack store to be fixed.  The AF
Reserve bought the TRS-80 to remain consistent with our ANG bretheren,
a choice which proved sound.  We also bought SCRIPSIT word processing
software for the machine which started us in real office automation.
 
Pickles and Trout made a custom CP/M for the machine which did not
require low memory for stacks and stuff (where Radio Shack put ROMs)
and dBase II and WordStar (I think) worked fine.
 
We used the machine heavily until the Z-100 hit the USAF contract.