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[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"]There's three entries in Jimmy Maher's seris about the TRS-80 Computer so far. [quote]he reasons for the conventional wisdom about the history of the PC aren’t hard to divine. It may be a cliché to say that history is written by the victors, but that makes it no less true — and with Commodore defunct for 17 years at this writing and Radio Shack, or “RadioShack” as they now prefer to be called, having given up on manufacturing computers almost as long ago, the winners in this case are obvious. Further, the story of Apple Computer, of these two plucky all-American visionaries inventing the future in their garage, is the sort that the mainstream media loves to write. How can Commodore, an ex-calculator and office furniture manufacturer led by an abrasive and petty middle-aged man, compete with the two Steves? How can the conservative, stodgy, very establishment Tandy Corporation, parent of the Radio Shack chain of electronics stores?[/quote] <a href="http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-1/">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-2/">Part 2</a> and <a href="http://www.filfre.net/2011/06/the-trash-80-part-3/">Part 3</a>. ICJ[/quote]