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Micro: The magazine for TRS-80 owners

Giving popular computer brands a magazine all to themselves worked well

One of the things 80 Micro did was publish a short column called 80 Alert, which listed advertisers who were having trouble delivering products readers had paid for, or had gone out of business. But the seven-and-a-half-year run of 80 Micro was a much-needed resource for TRS-80 computer owners at the time, and remains an invaluable historical record for these storied machines. He invests in real estate on the side and his hobbies include O gauge trains, baseball cards, and retro computers and video games.

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