Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “TRS-80 Model 100 | Walt Mossberg’s gadget museum”.
This is one of the first laptops, or maybe it’s one of the first tablets. I don’t know what you want to call it. I’M Walt Mossberg. I have been reviewing tech gadgets since the early 90s and collecting them since the 80s, and I wanted to show you some of my collection.
It’S the trs-80 model 100, which is made by RadioShack, and this was my personal one you can see. I still have my little name label here. It used for double A’s, it’s what it used according to the label.
Here I used it at the Wall Street Journal to cover things, because it was one of the first computers that had a built-in modem. It’S a word processor, phone directory and dialer. It even communicates with the office computer Roger alpha treborj.
I think it cost about twelve or thirteen hundred bucks for each one of these. At one time. I remember them saying publicly that their biggest customer base was journalists.
The media computer network is the most efficient way to inform all the news media in only a few minutes time. The journal had a lot of money rolling in dough. In those days print was big, so they gave me the budget to buy one of these.
For everyone in the bureau, you could send your story to the journal and then what was on the other end was a printer that had a modem built into it and it would print it out because the editing process was still paper. You’Ll go far. I think this is, I mean I honestly think you could probably draw a line from this to the iPad of all things, because look it’s a single flat surface.
It’S not a clamshell I’ve granted. It has a tiny black and white screen. Nothing like a retina iPad screen, but I think this in a way Radio Shack at the time was kind of a power and computing him, and then they went out of the business, but maybe they would have had the purse.
You know tablet everyone wanted to have at some point. .