I remember learning BASIC on the TRS-80 back around 1979, been programming ever since.
I started with BASIC on the Trash-80 and Apple II in ‘82, and have been programming as needed since. But I haven’t used BASIC since learning Fortran, C, etc.
That's about the same timeframe I was doing that also.
Had a TRS-80 Model I with 16k of RAM and a cassette drive.
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It was a model 1 then. Model 3 was released in 1980.
Might have been a model 2, but they were pretty rare.