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jazz lady said:Ah, that brings back memories.I remember taking some programming classes on Tandy TRS-80's like in the third picture. They were a step up from using punched cards like my first courses.
I remember having the TRS-80. It was known as Trash-80. My parents bought it at a Radio Shack-probably paid way too much for it too. I remember them getting me a Poltergeist game cartridge that always seemed to lock up- what a piece of sh**!!
arnert23 said:
Hence the name of this thread.
They were definitely pieces of crap, but back then, they were da bomb! Everything you always wanted to know about the TRS-80, but were afraid to ask...
arnert23
Home of the Brave
jazz lady said:Hence the name of this thread.
Everything you always wanted to know about the TRS-80, but were afraid to ask...
Yes, it definately is fun going down "memory lane." However, I don't recall them being "da bomb" back then- only being worthless crap...
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I remember them (TRS-80) in my middle school programming class. They DID WORK and do what they were designed to do.
I loved the Donkey Kong game with the B&W blocky graphics.
I loved the Donkey Kong game with the B&W blocky graphics.
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duzzey1a said:
I still have mine and also a vic-20.
Never had the modem though.
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Football season!
My first computer was a vic-20. Also had a tape drive with it. I then upgraded to a comm. 128. with a 300bps modem. Upgraded to an Amiga and I think at that point I got a 1200bps modem.
My computer lab in middle school was a room full of commodore Pets. in high school, the lab was apple II GSs, and one Mac.
My computer lab in middle school was a room full of commodore Pets. in high school, the lab was apple II GSs, and one Mac.
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My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair ZX-81. I was able to write small programs in BASIC and get it to plot things on a B&W TV screen. I saved the programs on audio tape.
My second was a Zenith, a great big thing with two floppy drives (one for program and one for data) and a green-and-black monitor. I could do documents in WordStar and spreadsheets in Lotus 1-2-3.
When I got my first REAL PC (a Packard-Bell 386SX running Windows 3.1.1), I thought I was pretty cool! I remember my Internet access consisted of the Hollywood News and Information Service (HNIS) Bulletin Board Service. I had a screamin' fast 9600 baud modem. To connect, I had to set up Procomm Plus to execute something like:
ATDT, 301XXXXXXX
And I'd wait - very patiently, for sometimes several minutes - for the terminal window to show the query from the HNIS server asking for my username and password.
My second was a Zenith, a great big thing with two floppy drives (one for program and one for data) and a green-and-black monitor. I could do documents in WordStar and spreadsheets in Lotus 1-2-3.
When I got my first REAL PC (a Packard-Bell 386SX running Windows 3.1.1), I thought I was pretty cool! I remember my Internet access consisted of the Hollywood News and Information Service (HNIS) Bulletin Board Service. I had a screamin' fast 9600 baud modem. To connect, I had to set up Procomm Plus to execute something like:
ATDT, 301XXXXXXX
And I'd wait - very patiently, for sometimes several minutes - for the terminal window to show the query from the HNIS server asking for my username and password.
