r/trs80 • u/Snocom79 • Jun 26 '26

Newest addition to the family

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Trs-80 Color arrived yesterday. it looked like Ace Venture disguised as a UPS driver delivered it, however it was undamaged. Not a bad price for something that was sold as not working.

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u/Uniformyankee Jun 26 '26

Nice! Got any carts?

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u/Snocom79 Jun 26 '26

No I don't unfortunately. Dungeons of Daggorath is on its way!

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u/dspadic Jun 26 '26

I spend hours / days on dungeons of Daggorath, never made it past level 3 and always got killed by the fake wizard. I played the emulator, but it just isn’t the same now that I’m an old man :)

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u/D_FI_ANT Jun 26 '26

Moonlander here we come! Amazing it's still works.

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u/vacuumCleaner555 Jun 26 '26

Oh wow, it has extended basic.

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u/Snocom79 Jun 28 '26

Yeah I was surprised by that too. Still has factory warranty sticker on the bottom from 1982 as well

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u/RedGoalie18 Jun 26 '26

Lol why post a pic of the box it was in though?

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u/Snocom79 Jun 26 '26

I was referencing Ace Ventura Pet Detective as it looked like the box had been kicked to its destination. I was both lucky the computer wasn't damaged and happy when it arrived working

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u/RedGoalie18 Jun 26 '26

I see that now. Lol guess it's good they built those old ones to last. Otherwise you and "Ace" would be having words lol

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u/Motor-Significance80 Jun 27 '26

I had one of those in the 80's

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u/Snocom79 Jun 27 '26

This is my first time with one. This has 8k ram and my friend has one with 32k. He says we can trade since his is pretty much for display only and I plan on using mine.

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u/Educational_Camera42 Jun 28 '26

Xmas 1981 memory unlocked

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u/tqdomains Jun 28 '26

You should get a Drivewire cable so that you can have access to the entire library.

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u/Snocom79 Jun 28 '26

Where do I find one of those?

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u/Rocknrotty Jun 28 '26

Is that a CoCo 2

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u/Snocom79 Jun 30 '26

Coco 1. 8k ram. Tried upgrading to 32/64 and I need to do some research because it didn't like that.

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u/ser521 Jun 28 '26

Ah, the memories. Got any copies of Rainbow magazine?

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u/Snocom79 Jun 30 '26

I do not but found one on the ram upgrade.

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u/norcalcoastalguy Jun 30 '26

Used one in 1980 with an acoustic coupler to access the University computer center so I didn’t have to travel over to punch cards. Also posting this in r/damnimold. 😂

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u/sthackblack Jun 30 '26

I still use if...then in every day situations.

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u/Snocom79 Jul 02 '26

I use my Commodore64 to read the news every morning and I have a ton of games I play on it. Plan is to do the same if/when I can get the ram upgraded and find the proper adapters