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I remember the computers. My son is now a professional IT guy as a collateral job to his primary engineering function. He learned his first computer skills on a Tandy Color Computer. I think I still have several issues of Hot CoCo somewhere.
I purchased a TRS 80 model III for my office. I couldn’t get it to work for about three days and went back and learned they left out the “boot disk”. What the hell is a boot disk. Whatever it was it made it work. I visited a Radio Shack down in Florida and they had a data base program. Somehow out local stroe didn’t have one. That opened new great doors for our glazing business. We got a spread sheet and that really made a difference. It would calculate glass sizes from opening sizes so quick it made your head swim.
I remember endless discussions with others about the relative merits of this computer over that computer. I bought the TRS 80 rather than the Apple primarily because the key pad had the 10 digit key pad like the calculators.
Ahh but then IBM came along and the PC dominated the world. Such is life