by jon » Sat Aug 04, 2012 1:51 pm
While the TRS-80 was bargain priced for the time, and is responsible for getting a lot of people "into computers" earlier than they would have otherwise, it was really awful from a reliability point of view. Most notably, keyboard "bounce" was so bad that the software involved removed rapid repeats of the same character.
A lot of computer service companies made a healthy living fixing the venerable "Trash 80".