Tandy Silver paint

[Ward Griffiths]

On Thursday 19 August 2004 11:32 am, 
filepro-list-request at lists.celestial.com wrote:

> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 11:06:49 -0400
> From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> Subject: Re: OT: Tandy Silver
> To: filePro List <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
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> 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...

Whaddya mean "was", paleface?  LS-DOS is still available, including 
source code.  For free, along with a damned fine emulator that lets me 
run old Big 5 games on my Linux server.  <www.tim-mann.org/trs80.html>
Tim and I are both looking for a copy of the 2/12/16/6k version of 
LS-DOS.  My material (serial number 25) was lost in a move a dozen 
years back.
-- 
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net    http://home.comcast.net/~wdg3rd/

No phrase sickens me more than the pious "'Tis God's will" and I must be
hearing it in one form or another at least twenty times a day.
    --  Richard Cowper, "The Hertsford Manuscript", F&SF Oct '76 p31col2