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Wow this takes me back. I think my parents had one of the cheaper models. All I ever did was play games on it. It's sad my dad eventually gave it away or threw

• drzaiusapelord 10y ago
  Same here. Our first home computer was a TRS-80 when I was a little kid, maybe 7 or 8. I'm not sure how my parents afforded it, but I think by the time we got one it was already deeply discounted. We had to use a tape drive to load programs and I'd ride my bike to Radio Shack to buy little games on tape. I mostly used it to program simple things in Basic. It came with this wonderful manual narrated by a cartoon TRS-80 robot that was very kid friendly. Then shortly after the Apple //e came into our lives. It was like night and day, especially considering we had a modem and I could dial into these strange things called BBS's. It even had color! Wow, what a game changer that was. Computer camp was little more than my classmates and I copying videos games. There was almost no DRM back then, maybe a question asking you to check something in the manual to make sure you at least had the manual that shipped with the floppy. Its crazy to think how the Mac and Windows 1.0 came out shortly after. The innovation from 1981 to 1985 was incredible. In four years you went from using a TRS-80-like monstrosity to sitting there using a mouse and keyboard running a refined and user-friendly GUI interface. I remember the first time I used a mac. I just used paint for hours on end. It was magical to me.