nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kimba1]

http://tech.msn.com/products/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4594343&page=1

I own #7
I can`t remember how to use it
But i still brag about still having it.
That whopping 5k memory still impresses the ladies.
I think most who still have it are like me and won`t part with it.
10 goto 20
nerds cringe when I say that

[Lanya]

I think we had a Tandy.  Do you remember that name? 

[kimba1]

radio shack I think
I also remember the TRS-80
that`s when high tech meant something.
my vic was so well made the power goes out when I move too much
that power connection wasn`t too good
a very common problem with vic`s
mine had a tape drive.
remember real floppies

[Amianthus]

I also remember the TRS-80
that`s when high tech meant something.

ROFLMAO

You realize that people in the computer industry called them "Trash-80s", right?

[kimba1]

no way
in it`s time
it was
oh what I don`t know anyone who owns a trs-80
I think they were sitting in radio shack gathering dusty .
since nobody knows how to 10 goto 20
anybody remember heathkits?
you can learn tv repair or make a robot.
the hero-1 I think it was called
I think we had cooler toys in the past

[BT]

One of my clients has this model in the storage room, including the centronics daisy-whell printer. We haven't had the heart to dispose of it.





Those are 8 inch floppy drives .

[kimba1]

I don`t think I could trash it also
but if it was two of them i might try to make one of them updated
since it`s larger than those barebones mini computer
replace ithe inners and make it modern
I heard someone did that with a vic 20

[Amianthus]

One of my clients has this model in the storage room, including the centronics daisy-whell printer. We haven't had the heart to dispose of it.

Which one is that? I've got a Model 12 laying around somewhere. Looks like the Model 8.

[BT]

Model 2

[Amianthus]

This was my first computer:

[Amianthus]

Here's another one that I owned which hasn't been mentioned yet, one of the first laptops:

[BT]

This is the first system i ever sold.

Cromemco - used the s-100 bus and ran a variation of Unix called Cromix ported to the Z80 and then the Morotoloa 68000 series. It was a multiuser system sold at a fraction of the price of the mini computers prevalent in that day. Teminals ran off serial ports. We also invented slave cards with their own processors to speed up applications. This must have been around 1979-80.

[Amianthus]

Cromemco - used the s-100 bus and ran a variation of Unix called Cromix ported to the Z80 and then the Morotoloa 68000 series. It was a multiuser system sold at a fraction of the price of the mini computers prevalent in that day.

Yup, I worked for a VAR that sold these as well.

[Stray Pooch]

My first computer was a TI-99/4A which I bought on the disastrous assumption that Texas Instruments was BOUND to make a good system.  It wasn't really all that bad for the time, but it wasn't very good either.  I used a casette recorder to store my programs and it did hook up to my TV (unlike the original TI-99/4).  It was fun to play with, but the few programs you could purchase on atari-like firmware cartridges were overpriced and not much fun to play with.  Fortunately, I was in Beligum at the time and was able to buy a British tech magazine called "Home Computing Weekly" which published programs for several of the platforms of the day that you could type into your computer and play with.  By analyzing the programs, I learned a lot about the art.  I also got some nifty games to play in the bargain. 

I took my first BASIC programming course on the TRS-80. THe second one was on an Apple 2E.  I also owned a VIC-20, an Osbourne-1 portable (oh, my aching shoulders) and a cutesy little Timex-Sinclair tha hooked up to my TV.  Remember Wordstar, Visicalc and the operating system CPM?  And like many, I owned a Tandy 1000. 

The silly thing is, sometimes I miss them all.

[Amianthus]

My first computer was a TI-99/4A which I bought on the disastrous assumption that Texas Instruments was BOUND to make a good system.  It wasn't really all that bad for the time, but it wasn't very good either.

Actually, it was one of the best micro systems on the market at the time.

In the late 70s / early 80s, I was doing a lot of contract software development on these (I owned two of these, they heated up the whole apartment when they were running!):


Data General Nova4