My TRS-80 model III. It has 48K RAM. It came originally with 2 internal SS40 floppy drives. The one that was :0 works faily well and is now mounted as :2. The one that was :1 is bad (stored for later). It also had several keys that needed cleaning inside.
The keys all became good after cleaning. Some of them had to be desoldered to get at the catches which opened them for cleaning, and soldered in again afterwards.
At first I operated with 3.5" drives externally but since I had one
spare bay and wanted to boot from 3.5" I made this module and mounted it
in the lower bay. The drives are normal PC 1.44MB drives jumpered to be
:0 and :1. They are on a straight cable connected to the internal side
of the controller. The original drive :0 was then moved to the upper
bay and connected to the external side of the controller with a cable
that comes through the grilles in the bottom and connects to the
external side of the floppy controller making it :2.I use the 3.5" drives with 720KB media, 2DD floppies (1.44MB is not possible, the 2MHz Z80 isn't fast enough to cope and there is no hardware to handle selecting high density).
It is also possible to use 1.44MB media as 720KB by covering the right hand hole with opaque tape underneath. The 1.44MB media actually needs a slightly different setup when writing (normally handled by selecting high density) but the difference is so small that it generally works. If you have 720KB media use it.
This machine was equipped with one modification from before: A joystick port. There is a 9pin dsub connetor coming out on the left side next to the keyboard. It is connected to the keyboard so that the switches in a Commodore 64 compatible joystick parallels the arrows and space. It is very similar to what Simon N Goodwin describes for the Video Genie in the page that I host.
This machine, like the Model I and 4 was given to me from Graeme Draper. Thank You Graeme.