2 Old Tandy-TRS80 games, 1988
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BabyNeedsANewPairO'Shoes
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Jeese that dates me.
I was in college in an electronics program and got hired at a Radio Shack. My first week was the first week they came out with the TRS 80. (TRS 80 = Tandy Radio Shack Z-80)
We got one in the store and the manager says "What the Hell does this thing do?"
It had a cassette recorder as a memory. You know what DOS stands for? Well the TRS 80 had a COS. (Cassette Operating System) If the program you wrote was saved at the end of the casette, well, go out and smoke a cigarette while it found and loaded the program. And we're still cussing our computers today because they're slower than we expect!
Hard to believe at that time Radio Shack was ahead of IBM in the Personal Computer business!
I was in college in an electronics program and got hired at a Radio Shack. My first week was the first week they came out with the TRS 80. (TRS 80 = Tandy Radio Shack Z-80)
We got one in the store and the manager says "What the Hell does this thing do?"
It had a cassette recorder as a memory. You know what DOS stands for? Well the TRS 80 had a COS. (Cassette Operating System) If the program you wrote was saved at the end of the casette, well, go out and smoke a cigarette while it found and loaded the program. And we're still cussing our computers today because they're slower than we expect!
Hard to believe at that time Radio Shack was ahead of IBM in the Personal Computer business!
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Remember when at the faculty meeting it was announced that every classroom would get a computer for next year.(sometime in 80's) We got a TRS 80, a couple of games, no instruction, but boy was I excited. Many of the teachers wouldn't turn it on, but a couple of us got with the program, so to speak. Now I was just cursung my HP for being slow and I have high speed internet. Funny what we take for granted...
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Nice find. I ran across the whole unit last weekend but I didn't buy it. Too much for something that may not work correctly.
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Reminds me of a lot of Cassette taps for the Atari Computer I bought a few years ago. I paid $5 for 10 tapes. I asked about them on a hobby board and they said one of them was mentioned in an article from the time of release, but no one had ever seen one in person. I sold the lot for $50 to a guy who was going to turn them into MP3 files and post them to the hobby board. Turns out that while there are collectors, the price for Computer games is still not very high (Video game cartridges can be quite collectible).
