Alexis Belmonte's Companion Cyberdeck Is a Slick, Modern Take on the Classic TRS-80 Model 100
Maker Alexis Belmonte has designed a TRS-80 Model 100-inspired portable cyberdeck, packing a Raspberry Pi 5 into a swish housing designed as a distraction-free device for everything from software development to web browsing: the Companion.
"Companion is a portable cyberdeck designed to be a sleek, modern, distraction-free machine in a distinguishable yet usable form factor," Belmonte explains of the gadget. "Writing, programming, web browsing, 3D modelling. Not gonna lie, there were a lot of frustrating moments along the way, but holding a working product at the end makes it all worth it!"
The Companion cyberdeck answers the question of what the TRS-80 Model 100 could have looked like if its designers were into minimalism. (📷: Alexis Belmonte)
The form-factor of the Companion is inspired by the classic Tandy-RadioShack TRS-80 Model 100, originally launched in Japan as the Kyocera Kyotronic 85. Unlike modern clamshell laptops, the Model 100 uses a flat...
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