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Funny enough the "truly personal computer" was popular at the NSA and related agencies, since the rapid application development enabled...

The original NeXT systems shipped with an MO drive and not necessarily a hard drive. The MO drives are read/write but make a lot of...

Yes you can boot from CDROM and they hook up like "regular" SCSI.

If you want to know what the CPU was truly clocked at, have you been able to determine how the PPC core was set to run at a set clocked...

There are emulators for the Symbolics 36xx series, for the TI Explorer and the MIT / LMI based machines as well. They should run well on...

For me the interest would be in installing a multi-tasking OS that ran "smoother" or "better" in some way than on ISA/VLB/AGP hardware...

I really do appreciate the in-depth response! Thank you!

Well I would like to know if there are differences in build quality; however it is very good to know that made some design choices in...

Well is it sturdier, is it more robustly made? I have a Model III , is it just mostly the same parts in a different case with a...

Is there a difference in the build quality between different TRS-80 models? Is the Model II "sturdier" for instance than the Model III?

Welcome to the forum! You will want to check the power supply and look for any capacitors that are out of spec. This includes replacing...

You can load CPM on it. There is a guy that put up the code on GitHub and I think he also did a video on YouTube about it.

I have the Redragon tenkeyless version, very similar to the above but with normal square-ish keycaps. It has lasted longer than any...

Reading about the Corona PPC-400 it is said that the fonts were 16x16 and very very sharp. Does anyone have a literal "screenshot"...

Can you comment on the quality of the plastics and the switches? They look to be high quality in the pictures.