In the summer of 1980 I celebrated my freshly minted B.S. in Journalism by blowing most of the cash I collected in graduation gifts on a TRS-80 Model 1 computer

In the summer of 1980 I celebrated my freshly minted B.S. in Journalism by blowing most of the cash I collected in graduation gifts on a TRS-80 Model 1 computer. ... More than 20 years later, I found myself with an urge to touch that magic again by building my own computer from scratch. From the text, it sounds like 2002 is accurate.