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My fathers small business had one in the early 80s when I was about 10-11 and he would bring it home supposedly to do some work, but mainly just to expose us to
by antod 5y ago
My fathers small business had one in the early 80s when I was about 10-11 and he would bring it home supposedly to do some work, but mainly just to expose us to computers I suppose. This was in NZ with an American TRS-80 model 3, so it also meant hauling around this heavy humming 240-100V transformer with US plug too.
Anyway, I learnt some BASIC despite my Usborne books from the UK not being TRS-80 specific. Played a lot of Cosmic Fighter and Meteor Mission, and started saving my newspaper delivery money for my own computer not knowing what I would end up getting. By the time I could afford something the ZX Spectrum arrived and I got that (a C64 would've taken a lot longer to save for hehe).
While the Speccy was the first computer I owned, the TRS-80 was the first computer I used.
- kcartlidge 5y ago> Anyway, I learnt some BASIC despite my Usborne books from the UK not being TRS-80 specific You may find this link of nostalgic interest: https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books Usborne have made those old books available as free PDFs. They've even done the classic ones for writing your own text adventures.
- antod 5y agoThanks for that nostalgia hit. I think I had about 7 or 8 of those, plus a couple that weren't on that page. Time to look up some 8 bit emulators....