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“Unfortunately, you’ve stripped its original patina…”
“Unfortunately, you’ve stripped its original patina…”
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Years of attending the Flea have left me with two things: a full storage unit and a good mental database of what things are worth. is a little high for a Model 100 in clean and working condition, complete with manual and accessories. It’s not unreasonable, though.
It’s tricky. I think most of the people who’d buy this would rather have an incomplete specimen for . It’s generally not hard to find them for even less than that.
The 100 is a true classic. It’s a rare example of perfect execution: they didn’t skimp on the keyboard and made necessary sacrifices elsewhere to ensure that the Model 100 would be damned-near unbreakable and would run forever on a set of batteries. It was a ubiquitous engine of journalism and field writing.
My iPad serves the same role today as the Model 100 served for writers twenty years ago. When I turn it sideways and use the virtual keyboard, it even looks and works much like a Model 100.
Photos and notes – Day 079
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«This is my LowePro bag for the photographic equipment… but not only for lenses, flash, batteries, cards…»
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Right before I joined Macworld (1999) I was doing IT for a newspaper publisher here on the Cape, and some of our reporters *still* used Model 100s to write from the field. Put in fresh AA batteries from time to time and they’d keep working.
Did it come with the acoustic coupler modem?
Famous for its firmware being the last Microsoft product for which Bill Gates did any direct programming:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
Mines in the workshop in a box. I used it with a comm program to debug AGV’s I was installing. write up my weekly progress reports and and make flight reservations back in 1985
This device strikes me as kin to the Alphasmart Neo. My wife took one to Ireland and England a few years ago, and it served her writing needs very well.
Very good
I need to sort out a bag now 
(I am going to modify a bag that I already have)
cute kepboard!!!!