Posts by Bushwood Smithie 9 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Oct 2015
The article is backwards. Most telecommunications companies pass the USF fee straight through to their customers. The FCC collects this money from the telecoms -- and pays it right back to them as subsidies for certain types of service.
This slush fund needs a stake through the heart.
Model I / Level I. Serial number 98.
Order September 1977, delivered October 1977. The only documentation that came with it was a photocopy of a marked up proof for a reference card.
My recollection was that Tandy only expected to sell a few hundred of them. Ended up selling 500,000+ of the Model I's alone.
My Model 100 still works fine, thank you.
What I miss is my TRS-80, Model 1, Level 1. Serial number was 98. Likely to have been the first day's production. The only documentation with it was photocopy of a marked-up galley proof of a reference card. Unfortunately it was stolen while I was in school one day.
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