Floppy Days 76 - Interview with Ian Mavric, TRS-80

Floppy Days Vintage Computing Podcast

Interview with Ian Mavric, TRS-80 Recycler

This is an interview-only episode of Floppy Days. I was able to catch up with someone well-known in the TRS-80 community, Mr. Ian Mavric, or Mav for short. Mav bills himself as a TRS-80 recycler who also sells a lot of upgrades for the TRS-80 line of computers, including the FreHD, hi-res boards, the Quinnterface and others. He’s also a member of the TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast and writes for the TRS8BIT newsletter. Mav is very active in the TRS-80 community and I was very happy to be able to sit down with him and talk about everything in which he’s involved.

Links:

• Mav’s web site - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/
• To order FreHD parts - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/trs80/emulator
• To order FreHD Clearly Superior sets - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/clearlysuperior/
• TRS-80 Model 4 Hi-Res boards - http://ianmav.customer.netspace.net.au/hires/hires.htm
• Fred Vecoven, Inventor of FreHD - http://www.vecoven.com/trs80/trs80.html

Mav can be found on the following internet Tech Forums:

• VCFEDs TRS-80 Forum - http://www.vcfed.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?46-Tandy-Radio-Shack
• Yahoo TRS-80 Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/TRS-80/info
• Yahoo TRS-80 Club Group - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/trs80club/info
• Usenet comp.sys.tandy - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/comp.sys.tandy
• Mav writes a quarterly column in TRS8Bit Newsletter - http://trs-80.org.uk/index.html

Sites which may interest TRS-80 Purists:

• SYDTRUG - Sydney TRS-80 User’s Group - http://sydtrug.org/
• Pascal Holdry’s TRS-80 en France - http://prof-80.fr/
• Ira Goldlkang’s TRS-80.Com - http://www.trs-80.com/wordpress/
• TRS-80 Trash Talk Podcast - http://www.trs80trashtalk.com/