Editing TRS-80 Model 100 (section)

== Reception ==
Tandy stated that the Model 100's sales "have only been moderate",<ref name="bartimo19840820"/> and an ''[[InfoWorld]]'' columnist later claimed that "it was only journalists" who had been buying it.<ref name="strehlo19850617">{{cite news
 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FS8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8
 | title=The Chiclet Rule and the Green Dragon
 | work=InfoWorld
 | date=1985-06-17
 | access-date=24 March 2016
 | author=Strehlo, Kevin
 | page=8}}</ref> By 1983 [[David Burnett (photojournalist)|David Burnett]] and [[Bill Pierce (photographer)|Bill Pierce]] were using Model 100s, and ''[[Newsday]]'' reportedly bought 500 units.{{r|kline19830815}} The system's popularity with journalists probably helped Radio Shack improve the company's poor reputation with the press and in the industry.<ref name="bartimo19840820">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HS8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47 | title=Radio Shack Polishes Its Image | access-date=February 28, 2011 | last=Bartimo | first=Jim | date=August 20, 1984 | work=[[InfoWorld]] | publisher=IDG | pages=47–52}}</ref> ''InfoWorld'' reviewer in 1983 called the computer "remarkable", praising its power relative to size and price and noting that he wrote the review "at the lofty height of 37,500 feet aboard a United DC-10". He concluded, "I'm not used to giving Radio Shack kudos, but the Model 100 is a brave, imaginative, useful addition to the realm of microcomputerdom" and "a leading contender for ''InfoWorld''{{'}}s Hardware Product of the Year for 1983",<ref name="hogan19830627">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yy8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66 | title=TRS-80 Model 100, battery-run, briefcase micro | work=InfoWorld | date=1983-06-27 | access-date=31 January 2015 | author=Hogan, Thom | pages=66–69}}</ref> an award which it indeed won.<ref name="robinson19850513">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2y4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA46 | title=Making a Good Thing Better | work=InfoWorld | date=1985-05-13 | access-date=1 February 2015 | author=Robinson, Dan | pages=46–47}}</ref>

''[[BYTE]]'' in 1983 described the Model 100 as "an amazing machine". While noting the lack of mass storage, the reviewer praised "one of the nicest keyboards I've used on any machine, large or small" and the "equally impressive" built-in software, and concluded "the designers of this machine ... should be congratulated".<ref name="malloy198305">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1983-05/1983_05_BYTE_08-05_The_Electronic_Office#page/n15/mode/2up | title=Little Big Computer / The TRS-80 Model 100 Portable Computer | work=BYTE | date=May 1983 | access-date=October 19, 2013 | author=Malloy, Rich | pages=14}}</ref> [[Dave Winer]] in 1984 described the 100 in the magazine as "the first useful portable computer", listing its screen, keyboard, and software as why it was "a breakthrough".<ref name="winer198401">{{Cite magazine |last1=Winer |first1=David |author-link=Dave Winer |last2=Winer |first2=Peter |date=January 1984 |title=Portables—1984 and Beyond: Idea-Processing Software and Portable Computers |url=https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1984-01/page/n244/mode/2up?view=theater |magazine=BYTE}}</ref> The magazine later stated that "Tandy practically invented the laptop computer".<ref name="byte198710">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1987-10-rescan/1987_10_BYTE_12-11_Heuristic_Algorithms#page/n103/mode/2up | title=The Tandy Anniversary Product Explosion | work=BYTE | date=October 1987 | access-date=August 4, 2014 |author1=Malloy, Rich |author2=Vose, G. Michael |author3=Stewart, George A. | pages=100}}</ref> ''[[PC Magazine]]'' criticized the Model 100 display's [[viewing angle]], but noted that the text editor automatically reflowed paragraphs unlike [[WordStar]]. It concluded that the computer "is an ingenious, capable device ... an exciting example of the new wave of portable computers".<ref name="sandler198306">{{cite news | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=14Kfbrc6cbAC&pg=PA194 | title=The TRS-80 Model 100: Never An Idle Moment | work=PC Magazine | date=June 1983 | access-date=October 21, 2013 | author=Sandler, Corey | pages=195}}</ref>

''[[Your Computer (Australian magazine)|Your Computer]]'' magazine selected the Kyocera portable computer (including the Tandy, NEC and Olivetti models) as the best personal computer in its 1983 "Personal Computer of the Year" awards.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Personal Computer of the Year: Three of a kind |magazine=[[Your Computer (Australian magazine)|Your Computer]] |date=April 1984 |pages=39–41 |url=https://archive.org/details/yc_1984_04/page/39}}</ref> ''[[Creative Computing]]'' said that the Model 100 was "the clear winner" in the category of notebook portables under $1000 for 1984, although cautioning that "the 8K version is practically useless".<ref name="ahl198412">{{Cite magazine |last=Ahl |first=David H. |author-link=David H. Ahl |date=December 1984 |title=Top 12 computers of 1984 |url=https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/10_Top_12_computers_of_1984.php |magazine=Creative Computing |access-date=2019-03-16 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512050936/https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n12/10_Top_12_computers_of_1984.php |url-status=live }}</ref>