{"id":798,"date":"2008-06-03T23:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=798"},"modified":"2008-06-03T23:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-04T09:05:55","slug":"feeling-retro-pc-world-disassembles-the-awesome-trs-80-model-100-ultraportable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/03\/feeling-retro-pc-world-disassembles-the-awesome-trs-80-model-100-ultraportable\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Retro: PC World Disassembles the Awesome TRS-80 Model 100 Ultraportable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time that mere mortals (people who couldn&#8217;t solder or code in assembly language) had two basic choices for a personal computer: The Apple II or the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1. Somehow, in these ancient days, there emerged an device that was a great ultraportable before the term ultraportable was even coined: The TRS-80 Model 100. It also has the distinction of being the last product that Microsoft&#8217;s Bill Gates worked on in depth. PC World disassembled this 25 year old masterpiece in design and presents the photos at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,146496\/article.html\">Inside a Classic: The TRS-80 Model 100<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I definitely want to go find mine this weekend, throw 4 AA batteries in it and see if it powers up. Will post the video on YouTube if I find it and it powers up for a demo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time that mere mortals (people who couldn&#8217;t solder or code in assembly language) had two basic choices for a personal computer: The Apple II or the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 1. Somehow, in these ancient days, there emerged an device that was a great ultraportable before the term ultraportable was even coined: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-netbook-mobile-devices"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}