Meaning of Trash-80 | Babel Free

Definitions

A TRS-80 microcomputer.

derogatory, slang

Examples

“Radio Shack's "schlocky" image begins not with the name or the advertising or the "Trash-80" computers but at the store. I recently went to get some replacement pens for my TRS-80 PC-2 printer. The clerk asked, "What's a PC-2?" and "Why does it need pens?" With help like that, who needs competition?”

“It seems that the developers and users were much more attached to their beloved Trash-80s than anyone at Tandy.”

“He'd picked a computer. It was a perfect choice for a boy who takes things apart—because the little Trash-80 computer was a portal to the Blue Nowhere, which is infinitely deep and infinitely complex, made up of layer upon layer of parts small as molecules and big as the exploding universe.”

CEFR level