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How many of us made goofy little programs in BASIC on this gem? (Radio Shack TRS-80 III):
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*raises hand*
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Wow, this is actually the computer that got me interested in technology. I saw one of these on display at Radio Shack when I was 8 and thought it was the most high-tech thing I'd ever seen (because it was I at the time I suppose). Within a few months I had a
TRS-80 CoCo, which kinda sucked but was awesome at the time. After that I had a
TI-99/4a, then shortly after a
C-64. ...all of which I still have in my garage.
The wife and I have spent the last month getting everything arranged out there to get them all on the bench and running. By bench, I mean a rather large computer bench/rack (weighs 300+ pounds) that we used to have all of our servers on at work during the 90's and early 2000. Room enough for 4 monitors and 20 or so systems simultaneously. Just yesterday I got out and dusted off the TI, CoCo, C-64,C-128D, and various old PCs including some 286's, 386's (both SX and DX), 486's, and other PCs throughout the various Pentium generations and AMD K series CPUs, including a few never released experimental chips. I'll be working on them through the summer to get them all operational again to show the kids, mine and maybe others, how tech has progressed just in my lifetime. Once that's done, I'm thinking about building one of those sit-down video game machines using a PC and
M.A.M.E.