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TRS-80 Model 16 with Xenix. You could get upgrades to get them to 768k. http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/catalogs_extra/1984_rsc-10/h004.html http://www

by kator 14y ago

TRS-80 Model 16 with Xenix. You could get upgrades to get them to 768k. http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/catalogs_extra/1984_rsc-10/h004.html http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/catalogs_extra/1984_r...

tluyben2 14y ago
Nice! No-one I knew then had the cash for that then :) I have one of those here now but not with the 768k extension.
- kator 14y ago
  Funny but true I have a Model 16b but the foam on the keyboard keys failed so I can't use the console anymore.. :( I was so sad when I found this out.. I could boot the machine but could not login to the console. It sat there waiting for me to type Control-D to go to multi-user mode.. And tears sort of welled up in my eyes as I hit the power button.. I love the days we live in, they seem like a dream from the days when I started in computers. But once in a while I wish I could visit those earlier days. Sort of like a High School jock who's a security guard now and wants to revisit his High School "Glory Days". Except I am still in my "Glory Days" and enjoying every minute of it.. :) But I still often long for those simpler days when thinking about how many k Bytes I would allocate to solve a problem would cause swapping on the machine and how to avoid it.. ;-) But technology like life progresses on and we must adapt or die.. Me I choose to adapt.. while thinking fondly sometimes about the simpler times.. ;-)
  - tluyben2 14y ago
    I just do both; I create web and mobile apps for my clients, games for my clients and myself (the infinite cpu/memory kind; i'm not yet good enough to pull everything from the metal on current computers) and, in my spare time, I work with old hardware and software. Soldering and programming on 80ties computers is relaxing and fulfilling just as I find modern tech to be.

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TRS-80 Model 16 with Xenix. You could get upgrades to get them to 768k. http://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/html/catalogs_extra/1984_rsc-10/h004.html http://www

by kator 14y ago

tluyben2 14y ago
Nice! No-one I knew then had the cash for that then :) I have one of those here now but not with the 768k extension.
- kator 14y ago
  Funny but true I have a Model 16b but the foam on the keyboard keys failed so I can't use the console anymore.. :( I was so sad when I found this out.. I could boot the machine but could not login to the console. It sat there waiting for me to type Control-D to go to multi-user mode.. And tears sort of welled up in my eyes as I hit the power button.. I love the days we live in, they seem like a dream from the days when I started in computers. But once in a while I wish I could visit those earlier days. Sort of like a High School jock who's a security guard now and wants to revisit his High School "Glory Days". Except I am still in my "Glory Days" and enjoying every minute of it.. :) But I still often long for those simpler days when thinking about how many k Bytes I would allocate to solve a problem would cause swapping on the machine and how to avoid it.. ;-) But technology like life progresses on and we must adapt or die.. Me I choose to adapt.. while thinking fondly sometimes about the simpler times.. ;-)
  - tluyben2 14y ago
    I just do both; I create web and mobile apps for my clients, games for my clients and myself (the infinite cpu/memory kind; i'm not yet good enough to pull everything from the metal on current computers) and, in my spare time, I work with old hardware and software. Soldering and programming on 80ties computers is relaxing and fulfilling just as I find modern tech to be.