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Showing my age a bit but it's amazing how such simple things can alter one's life. My parents brought home a heavily discounted TRS-80 Model I Level I with a
by alyandon 9y ago
Showing my age a bit but it's amazing how such simple things can alter one's life. My parents brought home a heavily discounted TRS-80 Model I Level I with a whopping 4k of ram when I was a child and that started my life long love of technology/coding.
- cr0sh 9y agoI started programming in Microsoft BASIC on my first computer - a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 with 16K of RAM. I used a cassette tape drive for storage, and a television for my "monitor". That's where it all began. Upgrades were done (went to 64K of RAM, also got a floppy drive and printer - then later the Color Computer 3, which was upgraded to 512K, and the CM-8 monitor - oh, there was a 300 baud modem in there somewhere too). Amazingly, I still have all of my old machines, and they all work (except for my printer - it was the CGP-220 ink jet printer, and the heads are clogged completely, and no way to fix or get ink cartridges for it).
- russellbeattie 9y agoNice! Fellow old-timer here! I still have my original TRS-80 CoCo as well. A few years ago I wanted to extract my first programs and realized I could convert my tapes to .wav files and load them into an emulator on my Mac. This is the post I wrote about it (complete with source code): http://rb.io/blog/letter-defender-my-big-program-from-30-years-ago http://rb.io/blog/letter-defender-my-big-program-from-30-yea...
- alyandon 9y agoI have fond memories of my CoCo and poke 65495,0.