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Like others have posted, my childhood included a lot of typing in BASIC programs from books and magazines. What I remember most is staying up late one night whe
by simmons 8y ago
Like others have posted, my childhood included a lot of typing in BASIC programs from books and magazines. What I remember most is staying up late one night when I was ten years old to type in the text adventure game from the back of "Basic Fun with Adventure Games" [1] on my TRS-80 MC-10 with 4K RAM. Before I could finish typing it in, I was shocked to get "?OM ERROR" -- out of memory. My first ever experience with running out of resources. :) I knew I was going to need a better computer...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Adventure-Games-Susan-Lipscomb/dp/0380874865 https://www.amazon.com/Basic-Adventure-Games-Susan-Lipscomb/...
- shakna 8y agoSame book, same game, and same error. The only difference with my introduction during my childhood was my father had a friend, who was building RAM extension boards (and other things) out of his garage, and he, excited that a kid was into computers, extended our TRS-80 for free. I can't remember the exact number at the moment, but it was something insane like 40Kb of RAM (But it was sometimes... Unstable). I was the only one of my friends with a computer at the time, and we used to gather round and play BASIC games we either wrote ourselves, or write up the latest magazine game.
- tamaharbor 8y agoI went all the way upgrading my TRS-80 Model 1. Expansion Interface with an additional 32k (48k total), AND the lowercase modification kit! [Reliability was increased when I gold-plated the tin edge connectors associated with the external ribbon cable.]