Tore, thanks for the reminded about different characters. I've still got my TRS-80 with Level II Basic. It came with upper case only because Tandy saved a few pennies by not buying the full character chip, but for about $90 (which was a lot of $ in those days) you could get a full character chip soldered in. I got that done and was extremely pleased with myself. All those fabulous new characters! Ah, those were the days.
There is a lesson for us there as well. That TRS-80 came with 4k RAM, could be upgraded to 16k and with the mighty expansion interface you could get to the dizzy heights of 48k. We had word processing, accounting, spreadsheets... all in less memory than a printer driver demands in 2005 ;-)
IMHO these computers are "Ford Model T"s that will one day be highly collectible. Does yours still run?
Regards
j.R
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
