I always wondered where they got the $50 pricetag from? Those things were selling for $1000 when they were first introduced. When Texas Instruments decided to pull out, you could get them nationwide for $50. I wonder who set the price? I had buddies in college who bought them just to play games on. For the time, it was a cheap game console.
My first computer was the Trash-80, and I was jealous of my friends who had the Commodore 64. I also remember playing a lot of Ultima, Droll, and Karateka on the Apple IIe
My first computer was a TRS80 Model III (trash 80). I remember it came with 16k of memory and I could not afford the floppy drives so I had the tape cassette recorder ( I still have the recorder) It came with CPM as the operating system and I learned to program with MS-Basic. Later I had a Coco 2 and later a Coco 3. My first PC was a Tandy 1000SX with 386K memory that had duel 5 1/4 inch floppy. I later updated it to 640k memory and a 20MB Hard Card (a hard disk on an expansion card) where I programed with MS Quick Basic 4.5. lol we were hot s**t back then :-)
life2shortJun 27, 2006
I always wondered where they got the $50 pricetag from? Those things were selling for $1000 when they were first introduced. When Texas Instruments decided to pull out, you could get them nationwide for $50. I wonder who set the price? I had buddies in college who bought them just to play games on. For the time, it was a cheap game console.
omnithoughtJun 27, 2006
My first computer was the Trash-80, and I was jealous of my friends who had the Commodore 64. I also remember playing a lot of Ultima, Droll, and Karateka on the Apple IIe
Closed AccountJun 27, 2006
My first computer was a TRS80 Model III (trash 80). I remember it came with 16k of memory and I could not afford the floppy drives so I had the tape cassette recorder ( I still have the recorder) It came with CPM as the operating system and I learned to program with MS-Basic. Later I had a Coco 2 and later a Coco 3. My first PC was a Tandy 1000SX with 386K memory that had duel 5 1/4 inch floppy. I later updated it to 640k memory and a 20MB Hard Card (a hard disk on an expansion card) where I programed with MS Quick Basic 4.5. lol we were hot s**t back then :-)
girls4geeksJun 30, 2006
My first computer was a Commodore 64. That is probably the best gift my dad every gave me.