The TRS-80 had a wide choice for the OS, and there were hardware clones
And then there were all the other machines Apple, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn/BBC, Spectravideo, Ohio Scientific/UK101 etc etc etc.
And if you wanted business there were all the CPM based ones Osbourne, Kaypro, Bondwell, Tandy, Panasonic etc etc
It was an incredibly rich time for computing back then, competing hardware, CPUs, OS's, Peripherals.
There we all sorts of variations on Basic (love it or hate it), The Jupiter Ace used Forth.
Var
TRS-80s and Atari's did pretty well in K-12 academia until the IBM PC 2 model 30s finally made a cheap enough box for them to move out of 8 bit (at the cost of graphics color - VGA was horrible but SVGA was still too expensive).
TRS-80 etc (Score:5, Insightful)
And then there were all the other machines Apple, Sinclair, Atari, Acorn/BBC, Spectravideo, Ohio Scientific/UK101 etc etc etc.
And if you wanted business there were all the CPM based ones Osbourne, Kaypro, Bondwell, Tandy, Panasonic etc etc
It was an incredibly rich time for computing back then, competing hardware, CPUs, OS's, Peripherals.
There we all sorts of variations on Basic (love it or hate it), The Jupiter Ace used Forth.
Var
Re:TRS-80 etc (Score:2)
TRS-80s and Atari's did pretty well in K-12 academia until the IBM PC 2 model 30s finally made a cheap enough box for them to move out of 8 bit (at the cost of graphics color - VGA was horrible but SVGA was still too expensive).