Ten thousand TRS 80s...

In an attempt to lighten up this thread, here's something near and dear to me....I started my own "Computer Education Center" while a college student at our local YMCA in about 1982. We used TRS-80's. Found this post today....enjoy. ------------- Ten thousand TRS 80s are sold one month after the computer's September 1977 release, greatly exceeding all sales projections. The TRS 80, affectionately called the "Trash 80", is designed by Radio Shack to compete with the Apple II and Commodore PET. Priced at $599, the model ships with 4K of RAM, a keyboard, a modified black and white television display, and a cassette tape device. ------------- Mark Scranton Informix 1995 - Xtivia Inc. www.markscranton.com mark.scranton@xtivia.com

On Sep 4, 4:39 pm, "Mark Scranton (Xtivia Inc.)" <mark.scran...@gmail.com> wrote: > In an attempt to lighten up this thread, here's something near and > dear to me....I started my own "Computer Education Center" while a > college student at our local YMCA in about 1982. We used TRS-80's. > Found this post today....enjoy. > > ------------- > Ten thousand TRS 80s are sold one month after the computer's September > 1977 release, greatly exceeding all sales projections. The TRS 80, > affectionately called the "Trash 80", is designed by Radio Shack to > compete with the Apple II and Commodore PET. Priced at $599, the model > ships with 4K of RAM, a keyboard, a modified black and white > television display, and a cassette tape device. > ------------- > > Mark Scranton > Informix 1995 - > Xtivia Inc.www.markscranton.com > mark.scran...@xtivia.com Figures. In 78, I was cutting my teeth on an OSI-C3 and in '84 working on a small medical project using an Apple IIE and a DEC PDP11 running System III. Oh those were the days. IMSAI anyone? Heathkit's H8? Remember buying parts from Fairchild Electric? Naw, only Marty L would have done stuff like that. ;-)