Old school laptop

TRS-80: iPad of the ‘80s

As awesome then as the iPad is now.

The TRS-80 Model 100 was my first notebook-style portable computer.

Issued to me by the newsroom, the TRS-80 subbed the magic of filing remotely, via super awesome hi-tech acoustic couplers and the bouncing modem sounds of dial-up internet, for dictating on deadline to the desk.

I loved it.

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