The "Well Loved" TRS-80 Model 3 gets a Hard Drive  

Yup - I'm aware of that. A future project is to wire in an internal amp and speaker.

Yeah sometimes, unless it's that ugly yellow/brown color, that causes the plastics to become brittle with age. then I try to do my best to deyellow them with the retrobrite process.

and.. I just saw you wrote the same thing, my apologies :/ lol

Yeah. *really* expensive. But I do like that Ian has made a modern variant.

Brian V Penetrator does have sound. In fact it has one of the most annoying intro sirens in the world. A future project is going to be to wire up a small amp and speaker internally.

@@MrLurchsThings Cool, I wanted to do that myself as well. However since I put all my computers together, i have an AV switchbox between a bunch of systems that swap composite and/or audio between the systems.

Adam Booth The name doesn’t ring a bell, sorry. But if I find any info I’ll let you know. Might be worth a post on the Aus Vintage Group on FB.

That's pretty easy. You just have to extrapolate from the data available online. In December 1981, Morrow Designs had a 26 megabyte hard drive for $3,599 ($9,568 after adjusting for inflation). That works out to $138 million per terabyte ($366,891,233 after inflation).

My first job in the late 90s was a little overstocked country Tandy store. There were all sorts of boxes laying around in the storeroom unsold... if only I could go back in time and explore.

I fear such power can only lead to corruption.

Its comes with great responsibility :)

Oh wow, Assembly took place while I was actually nearing the Edinburgh leg of my UK trip. (First time!) I wish I had the chance to slow down and check out a boot sale or something.

Stefan Gies I don’t think so no.

@@MrLurchsThings Please have a look at this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Wi-EUOfhi6Q.html

It was done *ages* ago. I dont think I was even doing YT at the time.

omegasignas Goteks work well on many machines, although personally I prefer the FlashFloppy firmware.

I actually have a gotek usb drive, but I haven't changed the firmware on it yet, its still on stock, my ideal was to have both drive bays replaced with modern drive images

@@Captain_Char If You do the FlashFloppy with a rotary encoder and OLED screen, it makes switching between disk images WAY easier; and probably negates the need to dual drives.

I think Inflation is a good way to look at it, because it gives people a point of reference how much something really cost back in the day, because the value of money was worth more in the past. for example a can of Coke that was $.35 USD from a vending machine in the 80's, is now $1.00 for exact same product. or a $0.10 USD gallon of gas in the 60's is now $2.35 USD for the same non ethanol gas, and in the mid - late 90's when was between $0.80 - $0.87 USD a gallon when adjusted for inflation because of so much over supply after the first Gulf War it was the cheapest us American's had ever paid for it. So again I think inflation adjusting is a good way of looking at it the value of something in the past.