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     text: Taken from a Televideo brochure
     image: /media/museum/pubs/televideo_ts803_prmpict_s1.jpg
-  comments:
-  - author: jay c (United States of America )
-    date: Saturday 26th February 2022
-    text: i need one boot disk PLEASE!.. cant find what other options are there?
-  - author: Thomas (USA)
-    date: Sunday 10th October 2021
-    text: I drove a TS-803 CP/M computer from 1984-1986 at my first job. It was there when I came on board. Ran CP/M 2.2. Had some manuals and disks with the system. Among other things, I wrote a program that made use of the graphics capability to plot graphics. I think I was using BASIC to pass variables and make the system call to plot points. Not very fast, but worked. Migrated to an NEC 8 MHz turbo XT and a Novell network in ''86 or so.
-  - author: Bill Schmidt
-    date: Sunday 4th October 2015
-    text: I bought a Televideo 803 towards the end of 1983 and used it for word processing until about 1989. It ran Wordstar. Incredibly, both the CP/M operating system AND the Wordstar software were on a single 5-1/4 floppy, with my work being saved on the second floppy. The machine was completely nsilent with no fan $ having a cooling tower design. You could invert the screen, which was my preference, so the typing was in black and the background was green. I connected it to a dot-matrix printer using continuous feed paper with the holes along the edges. You could tear off the edges that had the holes and turn in perfect paper. As a freelance writer, found my productivity effectively doubled with this computer as I could work right up to the point of printing. No need to retype. My next computer was a Mac SE, bought used for $2500, which was the same price I paid for the Televideo. Weren''t those the days??
-  - author: Abe (Pennsylvania, USA)
-    date: Friday 24th April 2015
-    text: I am an original owner of a working TS803. I do have a boot disk if anyone needs one.
-  - author: Joe (United States)
-    date: Thursday 15th January 2015
-    text: Have you tried using an MS-DOS 2.11 360k floppy? If I recall, those systems could run either CP/M or DOS.
-  - author: Jay (Oregon, USA)
-    date: Tuesday 10th July 2012
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-      I purchased a TS-803 in spring of 1983 as my first personal computer. I used it for word processing and early spreadsheets (running early version of Lotus 1-2-3). I bought the TS-803 along with a wide carriage Epson dot matrix printer and still have both.
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-      Unfortunately, the ''boot disc'' required to start the unit got lost somewhere along the line. If anyone knows if it is possible to replace that, I''d appreciate the information.
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     url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230609043502/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1077