Message-ID: <v02130505ad10b99e7984@[196.20.20.2]> Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 22:57:00 GMT+0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: Computers for Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 1:08 PM 3/1/96, Bruce L. Geisert wrote: [...]>I found this intriguing announcement in the NYT or another newspaper that I
>read and I wonder if anyone knows more about it: "Free-lance financial journali
>st Brendan Murphy of New York is collecting TRS-80 portable computers (Models
>100, 102 and 200) sold by Radio Shack in the 1980's. The computers will be sent
>to Mali where journalists will use them to file stories from remote areas.
[...]
Why not IBM compatible 8086, 80286 which at least allow you to use MS-DOS? That then allows you to run uuPC (and they do that in Mali :-)-O), Kermit and/or FIDO and of course you can use WordStar, Word (yeah, folks, that ain't a rumor, some of us actually used these :-)-O) or WordPerfect for DOS.
Who can support a TRS? Who can repair a broken TRS? What software would they run?
This is nothing but crap, TRS-80, what is this world coming to?
el
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