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TRS-80 System Desk for Model 1 (RadioShack catalog number 26-1301)
$ 422.4
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Description
This is my complete, original TRS-80 System Desk with Disk Bay for the TRS-80 Model 1(just desk with legs and tray, no computer, monitor, floppy drives or other accessories). All original hardware included to assemble as shown.The desk has cut-outs specifically for holding the TRS-80 model 1 and expansion interface. First picture is it set up. Hopefully it finds a new home.
Here's a set of pictures of this same desk in a museum: https://imgur.com/a/8ampAeC
Due to the size/weight, I'm thinking this should be pickup only. I'm willing to have a discussion regarding shipping, but I expect it would cost hundreds.
The following detailed description is from: http://www.trs-80.org/trs-80-system-desk/
The TRS-80 Micro Computer System Desk (catalog number 26-1301), also known as the TRS-80 System Desk, was Radio Shack’s recommended desk for the TRS-80 Model I. It was introduced in 1978 for a price of 9.00. The TRS-80 System Desk was designed to hold a Model I, monitor, Radio Shack Expansion Interface, up to four floppy drives, and a TRS-80 Quick Printer, with all wiring hidden inside the desk.
As one advertisement stated, the TRS-80 System Desk “concentrates your expanded TRS-80 system into one convenient area.”
Here’s a description of the TRS-80 System Desk from a 1979 newspaper advertisement: Serious computer users can integrate expanded TRS-80 installations into our attractive, functional desk unit. The keyboard and Expansion Interface fit into recessed spaces in the desk top, with interconnecting wiring concealed. A bay under the right side of the desk can house from one to four Mini-Disk drive units. A TRS-80 Quick Printer can sit on the right side of the desk with work space left over.
Unlike most of Radio Shack’s later computer desks, the desk material was not wood. It was described as “sturdy gray metal, with a white top, trimmed with a black ‘comfort edge’in front.”
The Model I keyboard unit and Expansion Interface fit into recessed areas that made them look as though they were built into the desk. Floppy drives were placed underneath the Model I, on a shelf to the right.
Because the TRS-80 System Desk was designed around the TRS-80 Model I, it couldn’t easily be reused for another computer, even the TRS-80 Model III or Color Computer. For that reason, original examples of the TRS-80 System Desks are quite rare today.