The TRS 80 series of computers were sold via Radio Shack & Tandy dealers in North America and Europe in the early 1980s. Much software was developed for these computers, particularly the relatively successful Colour Computer I, II & III models see TRS 80 Color Computer , which were designed for both home office and entertainment gaming uses. A list of software for the TRS 80 computer series appears below. This list includes software that was sold labelled as a Radio Shack or Tandy product. Model I class wikitable Cat. No. Title Media 1st Appearance 26 2009 Tiny Pascal Programming Language 1980 Model II class wikitable Cat. No. Title Media 1st Appearance VideoTex class wikitable Cat. No. Title Media 1st Appearance Color Computer 1 & 2 class wikitable Cat. No. Title Media 1st Appearance 26 2222 Videotex Program Pak RSC 6 26 2537 Space Probe Math RSC 10 26 2550 clowns and balloons RSC 8 26 2551 The Hound of Baskervilles RSC 8 26 2552 Moby Dick RSC 8 26 2553 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea RSC 8 26 2567 Klendathu RSC 10 26 2568 Vocabulary Tutor 1 RSC 8 26 2569 Vocabulary Tutor 2 RSC 8 26 2624 Pioneers in Technology 26 2625 Inventions that Changed Our Lives 26 2626 TRS 80 Chemistry Lab, Vol. I 26 2709 PILOT TRS 80 Color PILOT Cassette 26 2710 PILOT TRS 80 Color PILOT Disk 26 2721 LOGO Color LOGO Disk 26 2722 LOGO Color LOGO Program Pak 26 3019 Diagnostic ROM RSC 4 26 3021 Screen Print Program RSC 6 26 3050 Chess Program Pak RSC 4 26 3051 Quasar Commander Program Pak RSC 4 26 3052 Pinball Program Pak RSC 4 26 3053 Football Program Pak RSC 4 26 3055 Checkers Program Pak RSC 4 26 3056 Super Bustout Program Pak RSC 6 26 3057 Dino Wars Program Pak RSC 6 26 3058 Skiing Program Pak RSC 6 26 3059 Color Backgammon Program Pak RSC 6 26 3060 Space Assault Program Pak RSC 6 26 3061 Art Gallery Program Pak RSC 6 26 3062 Zaxxon 26 3063 Project Nebula Program Pak RSC 6 26 3064 Cyrus 26 3065 Polaris Program Pak RSC 6 26 3066 Galactic Attack RSC 8 26 3067 Wildcatting RSC 8 26 3070 Color Rob ... more details
6?tag artBody col1 title Computer Giants Giving a Major Boost to Increased Use of Corporate Videotex accessdate 2008 07 10 work Communications News year 1984 ref using the videotex system. Because of the commercial failure of videotex these banking services never became popular except in France where the use of videotex Minitel was subsidised by the telecom provider and the UK, where the Prestel ... more details
other people Michael Banks Michael A. Banks born 1951 is a science fiction writer and editor. He is perhaps best known for nonfiction works about the genre including Understanding Science Fiction, 1980 and collaborations with Mack Reynolds . Banks has several other novels to his credit, including The Odysseus Solution , with Dean R. Lambe , and has been a frequent contributor to Analog , Asimov s SF , and other publications. A former columnist for Windows Magazine and Computer Shopper , Banks was early on the scene as an Internet journalist, documenting the growth of online services and, later, the Internet and Web from the early 1980s onward. His The Modem Reference Brady Simon & Schuster was a standard guide to the online world throughout the 1980s, selling more than 200,000 copies. Banks explored Internet crime and computer privacy with books such as Web Psychos, Stalkers and Pranksters Coriolis and PC Confidential Sybex . He also served as a freelance acquisitions editor for Baen Books, and associate editor for Baen s quarterly book a zine, New Destinies, in the 1980s. Banks has lately turned to the biography field, writing about noted aviators, inventors, and other figures for magazines. A recent book, http www.amazon.com dp 1578602912 CROSLEY Two Brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation is the story of inventor Powel Crosley, Jr., whose low cost radios touched off the broadacsting industry in 1921. Crosley also founded WLW, the world s most powerful radio station, built the Crosley automobile and Moonbeam aircraft, and was involved in a number of other high tech ventures during the first half of the 20th Century. Banks more recently wrote Blogging Heroes Wiley, 2007 , and On the Way to the Web The Secret History of the Internet APress, 2008 . On the Way to the Web carries special appeal in that it tells the complete story of what was happening online before the Web including the histories of Videotex and online services such as CompuServe , T ... more details
The Tulip system I was a 16 bit personal computer based on the Intel Intel 8086 8086 and made by Tulip Computers , formerly an import company for the Exidy Sorcerer , called CompuData Systems . ref name twsNovZ343 cite news title Tulip system 1 publisher Computers.my inter.net quote Processor 8088 8087 Memory 128 896 k Screen 768 576 3 Mon. Build 1980 s year 1980s url http computers.my inter.net puters 7.htm accessdate 2010 11 29 ref File Tulip system 1.jpg thumb right Tulip System I microcomputer. Its 6845 based video display controller could display 80 24 text in 8 different fonts for supporting different languages, including a Videotex based font for 2 3 Box drawing characters Historical pseudo graphic symbols for displaying 160 72 pixel graphics in text mode . The video display generator could also display graphics with a 384 288 or 768 288 color or 768 576 monochrome pixel resolution using its built in NEC 7220 video display Coprocessor , which had Blitter hardware supported drawing functions , with a very advanced set of bit block transfers, it could do line generating, arc, circle, ellipse, ellipse arc, filled arc, filled circle, filled ellipse, filled elliptical arc and many other varied commands. Its memory could be upgraded in units of 128 KB up to 896 KB much more than the 640 KB of the original PC . ref name twsNovZ343 It included a Shugart Associates System Interface SASI hard disk interface a predecessor of the SCSI standard and was optionally delivered with a 5 MB or 10 MB hard disk. The floppy disk size was 400 KB 10 sectors, instead of 8 or 9 with the IBM PC or 800kb 80 tracks . It ran at 8 MHz, almost twice the speed of the IBM PC XT which was launched only a few months earlier in July 1983. It had the possibility to use a 8087 coprocessor for math, which increased the speed to 200 kflops, which was near mainframe data at that time. After initially using CP M 86 it quickly switched to using generic MS DOS 2.00. Th ... more details
Dow Jones News Retrieval was an online service offered by Dow Jones & Company beginning in 1973, which greatly expanded its subscriber numbers during the 1980s. It focused on financial information offering access to securities prices including quotes on stocks, bonds, options and mutual funds as well as a news data base with items culled from The Wall Street Journal , Barron s newspaper Barron s and other sources, as well as sports reports, movie reviews, electronic shopping, and email. ref http books.google.co.uk books?id iC4EAAAAMBAJ&pg PA54 Review Dow Jones News Retrieval , Infoworld , April 30, 1984 ref ref name query.nytimes.com James C. Condon, http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9A0DE0DB1E3CF930A15750C0A960948260&sec technology&spon &pagewanted all Investing Using Computers to Play the Market , New York Times , March 23, 1986. ref Subscriber numbers rose from 11,000 in 1981 ref http books.google.co.uk books?id jj4EAAAAMBAJ&pg PT22 Stop the Presses , Infoworld , March 30, 1981 ref to 205,000 by 1986. ref Beth Krevitt Eres et al , for UNESCO 1986 , http unesdoc.unesco.org images 0006 000689 068919eb.pdf A decision makers guide to videotex and teletext , p. 56 ref In the 1990s it also provided access to articles from The New York Times ref http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9F0CEEDF133EF934A35751C1A965958260 Times News Service on Line , New York Times , December 7, 1993. ref and Westlaw . ref http query.nytimes.com gst fullpage.html?res 9C00E6DB1438F93BA25756C0A962958260 Dow Jones and West to Link Data Services , New York Times , May 18, 1994. ref Fees for using the service were relatively expensive. It cost 30 to subscribe followed by a 12 annual membership fee. Additionally, prime time usage charges were 2.30 per minute ref name query.nytimes.com and after hours access was 44 cents a minute for basic services and general information, and 1.76 a minute for detailed reports such as S.E.C. filings. Blue Chip and Executive discount plans were av ... more details
Robin Rowland , a Canadian author, journalist and photographer, grew up in Kitimat , British Columbia. His family then moved to Toronto , where he attended York University and later Carleton University . He began as a reporter for the Sudbury Star and later worked for CBC News . While living in London he worked for as a Videotex producer before returning to Canada and rejoining CBC New s teletext experiment Project Iris. He also wrote a number of radio plays for CBC Radio Drama as well as short stories and science fiction. In the mid 1980s he began collaborating with James Dubro writing about organized crime in Canada. After six years with CTV News , in 1994, as he returned to CBC News. Rowland also co wrote the pioneering manual Researching on the Internet with Dave Kinnaman. In 1998, he became the producer of online content for CBC News The National . In 2003, Rowland was named the first photo editor in the history of CBC News. At the same time he earned a multidisciplinary masters degree from York University and Osgoode Hall Law School specializing in the history of war crimes. As a result of his research, Rowland wrote A River Kwai Story, The Sonkrai Tribunal, the story of a war crimes trial for guards in one of the most infamous camps on the during the building of the Burma Railway along the on Khwae Noi River Bibliography A River Kwai Story The Sonkrai Tribunal The Creative Guide to Research Researching on the Internet co authored with Dave Kinnaman Undercover Cases of the RCMP s Most Secret Operative co authored with James Dubro King of the Mob Rocco Perri and the Women Who Ran His Rackets co authored with James Dubro Morningside radio program drama series King of the Bootleggers starring Bruno Gerussi and Barbara Budd co authored with James Dubro Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Rowland, Robin ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Rowland, Robin Category Canadian journalis ... more details
multiple issues orphan February 2009 COI March 2009 BLPsources January 2011 James Howard also known as Jim Howard b. 1956 in Sacramento, California is a screenwriter, poet, computer game creator, and author. Biography James Howard worked from 1980 to 2010 as a writer for Hallmark Cards , ref Hershey, Gerri. Happy Day To You . New York Times, July 2, 1995. ref where he created the multi player game You Guessed It for the CompuServe network and the first known e greetings ref Compute magazine, Issue 76, September 1986, p. 118. ref of the pre Internet era for local cable and videotex systems. Howard s poems have appeared in small journals such as New Letters and The Texas Observer , and in the anthologies From A to Z 200 Contemporary American Poets , Voices From The Interior , and Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook of American Poetry . His essays and short prose pieces have been published in Paragraphs and My Bug . He is author of the Hallmark books Little Glimpses of Good 2008 and I ll Be Me and You Be You 2010 a book of political humor, The Tea Party Guide to Being a Real American 2011 under the pseudonym Roland Boyle and the blogs Spulge Nine and Tea Bastard. Howard s screenwriting credits include Big Bad Love 2001 and Dawn Anna 2005 , ref cite news url http www.nytimes.com 2005 01 10 arts television 10heff.html? r 1 title A Barrage of Calamities, All Based on a True Story last Heffernan first Virginia date January 10, 2005 work New York Times accessdate 17 January 2011 ref both co written with his brother, the actor director Arliss Howard . Howard is the father of three children and is married to the writer Penny Krugman. They live in Kansas City. References reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Howard, James ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1956 PLACE OF BIRTH SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Howard, James Category 1956 births Category Living people Category People from Sacramento, Californi ... more details
CoCo Semi graphics 6 display mode ref Videotex and teletext systems used a 2 3 matrix and one ... and white . Many systems used Videotex graphics . One of the best known examples is the Acorn BBC ... manual bbcwinh.html BBC Micro videotex graphics ref Other systems which used Videotex like graphics ... more details
a domestic telephone line. The intellectual basis for his system was his view that videotex , the modified ... later known as e business . ref 1982 Videotex Communications, Collected Papers Aldrich Archive, University of Brighton December 1982 http www.aldricharchive.com papers 1982 Videotex 20Communications ..., sold, installed, maintained and supported many online shopping systems, using videotex technology ... online shopping system was Gateshead SIS Tesco 1984 ref 1984 Videotex takes Gateshead Teleshopping ... downloads videotex 20takes 20gateshead.pdf The original story can be found at http www.aldricharchive.com ... for a wired community. ref 1982 Aldrich.M Videotex Key to the Wired City Quiller Press London ISBN 0 ... information systems he created is the concept that videotex was a new, mass communications ... michael aldrich prize.html ref Publications Videotex Key to the Wired City Aldrich ... more details
other uses Delphi disambiguation primarysources date September 2008 Delphi was an early United States U.S. online service provider that started as a nationwide dialup service in 1983 . File Delphi logo 1997.png thumbnail Delphi logo from 1997 History The company that became Delphi was founded by Wes Kussmaul as Kussmaul Encyclopedia in 1981, featured ASCII based encyclopedia, E mail , and a primitive chat. Newswires, bulletin boards and better chat were added in early 1982. On March 15, 1983, the Delphi name was first used by General Videotex Corporation. Forums were text based, and accessed via Telenet , Sprintnet , Tymnet , Uninet, and Datapac Canada . Delphi partnered with ASCII company ASCII Corp. of Japan to open online services in 1991. Delphi provided national consumer access to the Internet in 1992. Features included E mail July 1992 , File Transfer Protocol FTP , Telnet , Usenet , text based World Wide Web Web access November 1992 , MUD s, Finger protocol Finger , and Gopher protocol Gopher . In 1993 Delphi was sold to Rupert Murdoch s News Corporation . News Corporation recognized that there would be growth in consumer use of the internet and attempted to use Delphi as it s vehicle. It had 125,000 text based customers in 1995, but by 1996 was down to less than 5,000 by some accounts, 50,000 by others. In 1996, NewsCorp sold Delphi Internet to a group of investors that included some of its original principals. It launched a free, ad supported managed content website with associated Internet forum message boards and chat room s, under the management of a team led by Dan Bruns and which included Bill Louden, who had headed GEnie during its heyday. For a period of time, both text based and web based community services were available. After a year as a managed content site, Delphi reinvented itself as a community driven service that allowed anyone to create an online community. Prospero Technologies was formed in January 2000 as the merger of Delphi Forums and ... more details
Image TheTech V130N18.png 200px thumb right Front page of The Tech newspaper The Tech April 9, 2010 The Tech , first published on November 16, 1881, is the oldest and largest campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Editions are published on Tuesday and Friday throughout the academic year, daily during freshman orientation period, Wednesdays during January, and about once a month over the summer. Printed copies are distributed throughout the MIT campus on the morning of publication. Overview The Tech became the first newspaper published on the World Wide Web , as stated on its http tech.mit.edu webpage The world s first newspaper on the Web, est. 1993. Earlier, StarText , the Fort Worth Star Telegram s videotex system which displayed newspaper content on computer screens, began in 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas but did not go on the Internet until 1996 . In 1987, the Middlesex News Framingham, Massachusetts launched Fred the Computer , a single line BBS system used to preview the next day s edition and later to organize the newspaper s past film reviews. Nearly every published Tech is available online and most issues are accessible as PDF files. For example, the first issue ever printed http tech.mit.edu V1 PDF N1.pdf The Tech November 16, 1881 . Edited by Arthur W. Walker, it was printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, located at 34 School Street in Boston. As of 2012, The Tech is printed by Mass Web Printing Company, a unit of Phoenix Media Communications Group , the publisher of the Boston Phoenix . From 2000 2009, The Tech was printed by Charles River Publishing in Charlestown and briefly by Saltus Press in Worcester, after Saltus acquired Charles River Publishing. The Tech archives are available http tech.mit.edu browse.html online . Notable alumni Karen Arenson Karen W. Arenson Education writer for The New York Times . O. Reid Ashe, Jr. Chief Operating Officer of Media General . Simson L. Garfinkel Writer for Tech ... more details
World System Teletext or WST is the name of a standard for encoding and displaying teletext information, which is used as the standard for teletext throughout Europe today. It originally stems from the UK standard developed by the BBC and the UK Independent Broadcasting Authority in 1974 for teletext transmission, extended in 1976 as the Broadcast Teletext Specification. With some tweaks to allow for alternative national character sets, and adaptations to the NTSC 525 line system as necessary, this was then promoted internationally as World System Teletext . It was accepted by ITU R CCIR in 1986 under international standard CCIR 653 now ITU R BT.653 as one of four recognised standards for teletext worldwide, and may now most commonly be referred to as CCIR Teletext System B . Almost all television sets sold in Europe since the early 80s have built in WST standard teletext decoders as a feature. WST is used for all teletext services in Europe & Scandinavia, including Ceefax from the BBC and services from Teletext Ltd. Teletext on ITV in the United Kingdom , ZDFtext from ZDF and ARDText from ARD TV ARD in Germany , and Tekst TV from NRK in Norway , among many other teletext services offered by other television networks throughout the European continent. In the early 1980s a number of higher extension levels were envisaged for the specification, based on ideas then being promoted for worldwide videotex standards telephone dial up services offering a similar mix of text and graphics . The proposed higher content levels included geometrically specified graphics Level 4 , and higher resolution photographic type images Level 5 , to be conveyed using the same underlying mechanism at the transport layer. In the event only Level 2.5 was implemented, in some countries from the late 1990s, allowing some viewers with appropriate equipment to see the pages enhanced with a more flexible use of a wider range of colours, smoother graphics, and better international language support. ... more details
dried up. This left just the Videotex sales to other countries, and so the company concentrated ... Videotex systems, and the last of the company s main products also dried up. From the mid 1990s, manufacture ... X.25 Packet switch es Public Videotex and private Viewdata Systems 3rd party electronic and cable ... more details
About the founder of Interbrand other people called John Murphy John Murphy disambiguation John Murphy John Matthew Murphy , born 1946 in Essex , pioneered the art of brand valuation, that is, measuring the accounting value of a company s brands as assets, and in so doing, he stimulated the development of branding as an aspect of business. Murphy founded Interbrand , one of the first and still one of the leading branding consultancies, and named many familiar brands. Brunel University admitted him to the honorary degree of Doctor of Social Sciences in 2001. ref http www.brunel.ac.uk about people honorary graduates honorary graduates 2001 john murphy John Murphy at brunel.ac.uk ref Product names In London in 1974, Murphy launched Novamark, a small company specialising in product naming and in trade mark registrations. Brand names born of his efforts include ref http www.fundinguniverse.com company histories Interbrand Corporation Company History.html Interbrand Corporation at fundinguniverse.com ref ref http www.brunel.ac.uk about people honorary graduates honorary graduates 2001 john murphy John Murphy at brunel.ac.uk ref ref http www.independent.co.uk life style marketing the name game 1246883.html Marketing The name game at independent.co.uk ref Prestel , the UK Post Office videotex service British Telecom , then part of the Post Office, subsequently BT Austin Metro Metro , a range of cars HobNob , a biscuit Homebase , a chain of home improvement stores and garden centres Prozac , an antidepressant drug Slice soft drink Slice , a range soft drinks Zeneca , a pharmaceutical company Land Rover Discovery Discovery , a sport utility vehicle Kaliber , a low alcohol lager Interbrand and brand valuation In the 1970s, the scope of Novamark s consulting work expanded to encompass, for example, brand design and brand strategy in what we now know as branding a concept that was new at the time. So when Murphy opened his first overseas office, in New York City 1979 , he adopte ... more details
. 1980s MTS was a pioneer in offering videotex at the commercial level. In 1981, it partnered with Infomart ... videotex service Grassroots service, providing information relevant to farmers on the Canadian ... more details
as ARI Network Services ARIS OB . ref http www.atarimagazines.com creative v9n12 216 Farm videotex as America.php CREATIVE COMPUTING VOL. 9, NO. 12, DECEMBER 1983, PAGE 216, Farm videotex as American ... more details
as Knight Ridder and Times Mirror, in experimenting with a videotex news service, which was available ... of the early videotex experiments, the size of the subscriber base failed to meet expectations, and the effort ... more details
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