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Literally the first computer I ever saw. My dad had one and used it for engineering calculations. When it too proved inadequate he went out and bought a full-on
by bitwize 2y ago
Literally the first computer I ever saw. My dad had one and used it for engineering calculations. When it too proved inadequate he went out and bought a full-on desktop TRS-80 (the Model 16).
- rbanffy 2y ago> TRS-80 (the Model 16). That was a seriously cool computer back then.
- bitwize 2y agoIt was, but it took Radio Shack a while to figure out what to do with it. It was kind of "a solution in search of a problem" until they decided to port Unix to it. At first the plan was to use Unos from Charles River Data Systems, but then -- because Microsoft gonna Microsoft -- Microsoft came in and said that unless they made Xenix the Model 16's operating system, Tandy Corp.'s business relationship with Microsoft would be threatened.