Tandy Silver paint

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:21:29PM -0400, Ward Griffiths wrote:
| 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>
| > Message-ID: <20040819110649.E11000 at cgi.jachomes.com>
| > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
| >
| > 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.

I looked up Frank Durda IV on the Web the other night and found
a lot of connections between and LS-DOS.

FWIW

Bob

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