Some Personal Computing History
- Mar 10, 2007 at 11:59 PM
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Over on phoneboy.com, I decided to go into my personal computing history, at least with respect to PCs and Macs. Might be worth reading for some, or it might be a total bore.
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The computer was more like a distant cousin to the TRS-80 which had cartridges and had different cassette tapes for saving programs. I tried loading my saved programs onto a real TRS-80 at Cindy's house and the tapes didn't work. :(
But those were the days, though. Spending hours typing in basic programs from tomes such as Basic Computer Games by David Ahl on that chicklet keyboard, saving them on a tape drive, and occasionally printing things on a thermal printer. The computer originally had 4 kilobytes of RAM. I remember it being extra cool that you got me the 16k expansion for it so it had a massive 20 kilobytes of RAM. I beat the snot out of that computer.