Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Site

TRS-80 Revived Site by Ira Goldklang's is an archive of everything related to the Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 microcomputer lines. Site contains emulators, programs, manuals, books, patches, games, hints, discussions, questions, forums, and tons more.

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by @ 1:06 pm on March 24, 2009.
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IMPORTANT NOTE – READ FIRST

This page contains information only … with the following explanation being paraphrased (with permission) from the CLASP page of the Internet Archive. Although this was written to apply to the CLASP preservation project, that project and mine are at virtually identical places … a searchable archive of those titles which have been preserved, but no downloads are possible. As such, I have secured their permission (with proper attribution) to utilize much of their explanation to explain my own.

This site was originally created to help permanently archive classic, obsolete TRS-80 software, spanning from 1977 through the mid 1980′s.

These programs would otherwise be in danger of being lost forever, because they’re stored on fragile magnetic media, which has a life of anywhere between 10 and 30 years. Therefore, I have been working to acquire copies of TRS-80 software and making copies of these rapidly decaying floppy discs and tapes.

While I continue in this quest, the resulting data is currently locked away for safekeeping, until the copyright expires.

Many people seem to be upset that this software is not available for download but it is important to note, notwithstanding their feelings, obsolete software still has rigorous copyright standards applied to it. But by the time copyright does expire, these important digital artefacts won’t exist anywhere in their original form, which is why I am privately archiving now. One particular company who has a rodent mascot has been lobbying congress each time the rodent was about to fall into the public domain, and Congress has been extending the copyright length across the board, each time, to compensate. At this point, it would take another 50 years for the copyrights to lapse, and there is NO chance that the TRS-80 disks and tapes will survive that long.

This page is a public database (including basic information, disc scans, screen shots, ads, etc.) of each piece of successfully archived TRS-80 software, so progress can be documented.

If you have any TRS-80 disks lying around, you are encouraged to please email me so that I can attempt to extract the data before the disks are no longer readable.


Please select your search criteria …
This page is the main Information Page for TRS-80 Model I, III, and 4 software. Please choose your search criteria from the boxes below. Once you submit the query, a results page containing download links to each search result, along with basic information about the file, and clickable icons representing whether there is a screenshot, advertisement or software manual.

I have spent many hours cleaning up the database, trying to correct spelling mistakes in author’s names, etc. If you run a search, and find results such as “I Goldklang” “Ira Goldkling” and “Ira Goldklang”, please let me know, so that I can fix them all.

If you get a message that the table is empty, then there are no files for your criteria. One reason for such may be that you searched for a Model 4-only file (such as PRO-WAM), but left the criteria as Model I. Another example would be searching for an author’s name, but putting it into the description search box. Yet another example would be searching for “Ira Goldklang” when the entries might be “Ira C Goldklang” – try to stick with last name only. Even another example would be that you searched for a description with less than 2 characters (2 characters is the minimum length). I have made all of these types of mistakes myself.

For me to update the database, I have to delete in its entirety through the 1and1.com web site, and then re-upload a new 14,000+ entry CSV text file. If you run a search in the interim, I am not sure what the results will be, but if you get some really wacky occurrence (such as TRSDOS not being found), that is probably what is going on, and you should retry your search in a few minutes.
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