My dad brought home a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1980. We loaded our games with a cassette drive that took an eternity. If somehow you even looked at the wires going from the cassette to the computer it would fail to install properly-very frustrating for a 7 year old who just wanted to play a game.
18 years ago I was with a girlfriend touring the Smithsonian and looked up and saw my dad’s old “trash 80” system on display. It made me smile thinking of all the interesting times I had on that system.
Hard to believe I’m typing this on an iPhone 32 years later...
Roscommon
We used to play “Tunnels Of Doom” on my friends TRS-80 back then.
I can’t believe how cool we thought it was, compared to what they have now.
I had to take a programming class for my college engineering curriculum, and I learned Pascal on an old “Osbourne Executive” computer in the early 80s.
Lol... same here.. I got my TRaSh 80 in 1980 as well :p along with that darn cassette recorder.. and a whopping 300Bd modem (cradle) :/