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TRS=80
May 9, 2006 13:26:34 GMT -5
Post by thurstan on May 9, 2006 13:26:34 GMT -5
Earls podcast reminded me, in the film Tron is the computer that Flynn is using to hack into the system at the beginning a TRS=80 ?
have had no exposure at all of these computers, dont think they made it over here to the UK.
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May 9, 2006 15:01:20 GMT -5
Post by Golan Klinger on May 9, 2006 15:01:20 GMT -5
I'm 99% sure that the computer Flynn was using to hack into Encom was an Apple /// (check out oldcomputers.net/appleiii.html for pictures). Tron is my second favorite movie of all time.
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TRS=80
May 9, 2006 16:23:28 GMT -5
Post by Jeff Ledger on May 9, 2006 16:23:28 GMT -5
Wow did this podcast take me back!
My very first exposure to a computer was a TRS 80, model 1. My family couldn't afford one of these machines at the time, or the enrollment into the private school that had a lab full of these machines, but for some reason the owner of the school took a liking to a scrawny, backward, introverted kid, and allowed me to lock myself into that computer lab from the hours of 11pm-3am during my summers. (While the janitors cleaned the building.)
My first program was the ball (square) that bounced back and forth across the TRS 80 screen. What a blast!
Remember the cool book that came with that machine? The TRS-80 computer character with stick legs and arms? A great introduction to computing!
Jeff
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Jun 24, 2006 12:04:26 GMT -5
Post by twilson on Jun 24, 2006 12:04:26 GMT -5
Wow did this podcast take me back! My very first exposure to a computer was a TRS 80, model 1. My first exposure to computing was a TRS-80 CoCo 2. Parents got it for me when I was 4. Learnt BASIC on it and was writing my own programs when I was 5. It put me way ahead in mathematics when in high school, cos I already knew algebra when I was 5 (I just didn't know that's what it was at the time) It's what made me want to work in computers, which I now do.
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Jun 25, 2006 17:31:42 GMT -5
Post by zeem on Jun 25, 2006 17:31:42 GMT -5
I knew somebody, many years ago, that had a model of TRS-80 in the UK. He got it out of his shed and tried to get it to work, but couldn't. It had a vertically-mounted 8-inch floppy which was causing the problem. I later asked what he did with it, and he said he'd thrown it out. Needless to say, I was rather annoyed I also used to own a 16K CoCo, until I sold it on eBay. I never really used it because I didn't have any software, and the Dragon 32s I had were a bit better.
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Jun 25, 2006 17:36:21 GMT -5
Post by zeem on Jun 25, 2006 17:36:21 GMT -5
I've also remembered something relevant to TRS-80s in the UK. I have a book about car restoration which uses lots of photos provided by the (now defunct) Austin-Rover company. One of them was a late-70s picture of some car designers using some kind of TRS-80 to help design the Austin Metro. (For those outside the UK, the Metro was a small city car launched in 1980, and produced in some form until 1997).
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