The "Well Loved" TRS-80 Model 3 gets a Hard Drive
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2019
- This Model 3 is beaten and battered; and I love it that way.
And as a treat - its getting a Hard Drive!
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The FreHD Hard Drive Emulator:
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If you connect a speaker to the cassette output you can get sound effects and music when playing TRS-80 games.
Yup - I'm aware of that. A future project is to wire in an internal amp and speaker.
That machine is glorious - I love the labels and stickers. They're an important part of its history!
I've said it before but I love these modern mods for vintage systems, especially storage solutions. Wonderful stuff!! 👍
I remember staring at one of these in a Tandy shop in Melbourne in the early 1980s. It was a computer - a real live computer. What I couldn't get over was the price - they retailed for something like $1500 to $2,000 which as you can imagine was like a million dollars to a kid in the early 1980s. That's why then the Commodore 64 came out in Australia in 1982/83 with colour, sound, 64K RAM and a retail price of $500, it just wiped out these expensive, unobtainable paperweights.
I love how we can "Hot Rod" these old computers today. Love that you kept the "well loved" look. Gives it street cred. LOL
Yeah, sometimes the patina of being well used is a good thing.
Yeah sometimes, unless it's that ugly yellow/brown color, that causes the plastics to become brittle with age. then I try to do my best to deyellow them with the retrobrite process.
and.. I just saw you wrote the same thing, my apologies :/ lol
I learned BASIC and COBOL on a TRS-80 model 3 in high school (1984-88); our computer lab was a room full of these networked together... FORTRAN was still on punchcards :) I look forward to the day I can add a Model 3 to my collection.
I agree about limiting reconditioning for some elements on old hardware to preserve the machine's life history.
Great video as always 👍🏻❤️
Wow. I never knew you could add a hard drive to the TRS-80 back in the day! That was a pricey little guy!
Yeah. *really* expensive. But I do like that Ian has made a modern variant.
Damn that looks fun!!
"Penetrator" is my least favorite Depeche Mode album
Great video! There's just something comforting about vintage 8-bit computers... might just be my nostalgia. First computer I ever used was my older brother's Commodore VIC-20.
You Kept the Classy,, BIG HUGS..
My first real computer! In the BASIC book that came with the system there was an early flight sim that you could compile from code. Took forever if you couldnt touch type or use basic very well and was absolutly no fun at all. I didnt get into gaming until we got our 386 SX 16 and moved over to DOS.
love it, classic 8 bits should keep their patina! it's what makes them special :)
This has been a great #SepTandy. :) Hope you do it again next year...
Nice! =D
I too thought I would get better at that Penetrator game as I got older.
I second that!
Thanks for your good Video. Like your Channel.
Awesome, thanks for this video, I'm going to need to do the rom as well for the 'low tech ide' board I just finished building so at least I know where it goes now. I don't know if Penetrator has sound, (yeah, hard to say that name.. oh, man, i made it worse) but you might want to hook up the cassette cable (if you have one) to some powered speakers. It definitely makes the games better. When you do, try 13 ghosts, probably one of the best games i've played on the trs-80.
Brian V
Penetrator does have sound. In fact it has one of the most annoying intro sirens in the world. A future project is going to be to wire up a small amp and speaker internally.
@@MrLurchsThings Cool, I wanted to do that myself as well. However since I put all my computers together, i have an AV switchbox between a bunch of systems that swap composite and/or audio between the systems.
@2:00 I must have missed this video. "This is called a FRED". Do you know what FRED stands for? F.R.E.D -> Fu**ing Ridiculous Electronic Device. Thank you for your great content, have always loved your channel.
Nice vid Mr Lurch 🤗🤗🤗Kim🤗🤗🤗
Nice video! Ian has helped me get my Model 4 up and running and you can here his stories and opinions on the Trashtalkers podcast too. When I was a kid, we had a System-80 too - one of the games I remember playing was called Beta Blitz which I think was similar to Penetrator but I don't think it was an exact copy, for the life of me I cannot find any info on it except that it's not really a fever dream memory but is listed in old System 80 Games catalogs... You wouldn't happen to have played this back in the day and if so recall anything about it?
Adam Booth The name doesn’t ring a bell, sorry. But if I find any info I’ll let you know.
Might be worth a post on the Aus Vintage Group on FB.
Whoa. First? Loving septandy!
My first job in the late 90s was a little overstocked country Tandy store. There were all sorts of boxes laying around in the storeroom unsold... if only I could go back in time and explore.
You want to have a good laugh? Do the math to figure out how much 1 terabyte worth of hard drive space would have cost in 1982.
That's pretty easy. You just have to extrapolate from the data available online. In December 1981, Morrow Designs had a 26 megabyte hard drive for $3,599 ($9,568 after adjusting for inflation). That works out to $138 million per terabyte ($366,891,233 after inflation).
I'm getting my channel up and running but I have a few stuff for Septandy next year
Nice, will it also work on a Tandy color 2 ?
You sound Australian, in which case you should be doing Amiga stuff! Just kidding, enjoyed this :)
Still kicking myself for throwing out the model 4 my friend's dad gave me.
Oh wow, Assembly took place while I was actually nearing the Edinburgh leg of my UK trip. (First time!)
I wish I had the chance to slow down and check out a boot sale or something.
What are you planning to do with all that power??!!! WOW. :)
Use it for good, not evil.
I fear such power can only lead to corruption.
Its comes with great responsibility :)
I actually ended up putting an HxC floppy emulator in my kaypro 2x, its not a hard drive, but it does the same job
omegasignas Goteks work well on many machines, although personally I prefer the FlashFloppy firmware.
I actually have a gotek usb drive, but I haven't changed the firmware on it yet, its still on stock, my ideal was to have both drive bays replaced with modern drive images
@@Captain_Char If You do the FlashFloppy with a rotary encoder and OLED screen, it makes switching between disk images WAY easier; and probably negates the need to dual drives.
Too bad you didn't film the CRT swap, etc.
It was done *ages* ago. I dont think I was even doing YT at the time.
Hi Jason, is it possible to make a connector for an external TFT Monitor to switch between the internal and the external montor ?
Stefan Gies I don’t think so no.
@@MrLurchsThings Please have a look at this video: ua-cam.com/video/Wi-EUOfhi6Q/v-deo.html
Ok this is a personal babby of yours.
Why havent you put in a insolative wrap to protect the mobo from the crt?
Penetrator and no sound!
Connect an amp to the cassette port.
People like to cite inflation but in reality it's depreciation they should figure.
I think Inflation is a good way to look at it, because it gives people a point of reference how much something really cost back in the day, because the value of money was worth more in the past. for example a can of Coke that was $.35 USD from a vending machine in the 80's, is now $1.00 for exact same product. or a $0.10 USD gallon of gas in the 60's is now $2.35 USD for the same non ethanol gas, and in the mid - late 90's when was between $0.80 - $0.87 USD a gallon when adjusted for inflation because of so much over supply after the first Gulf War it was the cheapest us American's had ever paid for it. So again I think inflation adjusting is a good way of looking at it the value of something in the past.
$4500 for an 8MB HD. Yikes!
Hi, nice and interesting content, could you mount the HDD instead of one of the floppies?
However, for your future videos - to get a million subscribers - could you try using another camera? This one seems like piece of crap (white balance, dark image when monitor in frame, blurrycam - demented autofocus, ...) and is not worthy of your work. Just shoot it on an iPhone to get instant improvement :)