OT: Tandy Silver

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:34:03AM -0400, Bill Vermillion wrote:
> > Naw; let's make it a trivia quiz.  Anyone remember where Tandy Silver
> > came from?
> 
> Everyone knows that don't they? :-)^32

Well, apparently even *I* don't.

> They used a readily available paint shade that was picked when they
> needed to paint the RCA TV sets that were modified to work with the
> Model I.
> 
> The name is Mercedes Silver.  That shade was available quickly.

It had been my understanding that the sets *were* that color, and they
painted the computers to match...

but this page agrees with you:

http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-1.htm

So, clearly, I have it wrong.  Love that list of OS's.  LDOS was *so*
sweet...

Cheers,
-- jra
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