TRS-80 Model III Retro fitted

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Here is a project I just finished. I retro fitted a old Radio Shack TRS-80 Model iii to play all of my old school Steam Games like Duke Nukem, Commander Keen etc... It was not a easy project but I tried to make it look as factory as possible. The MX Cherry keyboard even has custom retro caps & it plays the old dial up modem sound at startup! Oh and I hooked up the old floppy drive lights to work with the HDD/CPU.

Specs are:
Pentium 2.6GHz
8 GB DDR3 Ram
250 GB HD
12” LCD Monitor
Red Dragon Mechanical Keyboard w/ custom Keycaps
Radio Shack Mouse
WiFi
Windows 7 Pro

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I works perfect for all of my older games now. But now that I know what I can fit in the case, I can always make a sleeper build out of it in the future!

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carlfugate wrote 03/17/2021 at 00:58

Can you give some more information about the keyboard and how you installed it? I'm working on my own version of this and really like your implementation!

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chris wrote 05/30/2019 at 09:04

Love this. Wish I had the skills to replicate this. I cut my teeth on TRS-80's in the 1980's (the era of the dial-up BBS). Would love to have something modern in this setup. Very cool!!!

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c wrote 05/28/2019 at 18:32

Nice project! Where did you find the 12-inch monitor?

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tpick0 wrote 05/29/2019 at 22:15

The monitor was the hardest part to find. But 12" is mainly used for Point of Sale Touch screen for businesses. Since I didn't feel like buying a $400 dollar touch screen, I looked on eBay and found one that the touch screen didn't work so I got it pretty cheap. And as I was test fitting everything on this I didn't want to ruin a good monitor. But now that I know what I can fit in the case the sky is the limit.

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Michael G wrote 05/25/2019 at 06:33

Very well executed

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tpick0 wrote 05/29/2019 at 22:11

Thanks!

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Techokami wrote 05/19/2019 at 21:34

I wish there was some more information to go along with this!

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tpick0 wrote 05/20/2019 at 17:00

I posted a bunch of pics under the Files section. But if you have any questions on what I had to do I would be glad to answer them. The biggest tool in this project was the dremel and careful measuring as to not mess up the case lol.

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jqball2u wrote 05/18/2019 at 18:16

Why not add hard drive docks &/or disc drives in those floppy drive slots?

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tpick0 wrote 05/20/2019 at 16:57

I was trying to keep it as factory looking as possible, but I did hook up the floppy lights to blink with the HDD and CPU. But It is still in the early phase so I might change stuff up as time goes.

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