Such nostalgia! I love these TRS-80 submissions and if you'll forgive me I can't resist reposting an earlier comment... My first computer was a second-hand "T

Such nostalgia! I love these TRS-80 submissions and if you'll forgive me I can't resist reposting an earlier comment... My first computer was a second-hand "Trash 80" CoCo 2 [1]. The thing came with a couple cartridge-style games (Downland [2] and Sokoban), but to do anything more you had to learn to program. I still remember that old-book smell cracking open the aged parchment in my dog-eared copy of Getting Started With Extended Color Basic [3]. I was around 10 years old, and that summer I took it with me and read a few pages every morning on the bus to summer camp. I was such a nerd. My thanks to Mr. Kemeny and Kurtz for bestowing this beautifully approachable language onto the world, even if your original vision was shamefully bastardized by the time I stumbled upon it. I had an external 5¼" floppy drive nearly the size of a shoe-box, but got a bigger kick out of using the cassette recorder for storage since you could see it in action and hear the distinct squeal of your data (sounded something like a modem). I recall planning my first UI's by meticulously coloring in squares on a paper grid. Dad complained I should spend more time outside, and maybe he was right. But I grew up, published my first commercial software title, and turned that geeky interest into a fulfilling career. One thing I gotta say, that TRS-80 still booted up faster than any PC I've owned since! [1] My TRS-80: https://imgur.com/a/eC19U94 https://imgur.com/a/eC19U94 [2] Downland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCzhqa-DROM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCzhqa-DROM [3] Getting Started With Extended Color Basic: http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Getting%20Started%20With%20Extended%20Color%20Basic%20%28Tandy%29.pdf http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/H...