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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAugust 3, 1977 Tandy Corp. introduced one of world's first mass-produced personal computers
My first P.C. wasn't until 1991.
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Ocelot II
(115,267 posts)the Commodore-64 came out. It seems so incredibly primitive now.
bottomofthehill
(8,261 posts)My family bought a used 1973 Dodge Dart in 1977 paying $500 dollars for a car that lasted 8 more years. $600 dollars for a computer not in my parents house.
zuul
(14,615 posts)Couldnt do much with it, but he just HAD to have one.
hunter
(38,263 posts)It's pretty easy to compute like it's 1977.
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The trs-80 was beyond my means at the time, possibly because I was goofing around in college computer labs when I ought to have been working.
I later took care of classroom trs-80s. The "network" was a single cassette drive on the teacher's desk that all the students could load the day's lessons from and a printer at the end of every row of tables. These were superseded by the Apple IIc in 1984, which Apple was aggressively marketing to schools and teachers.
My favorite home computer of the era was the Atari 800, first sold in 1979.
I've got a lot of old computers emulated on my desktop, and on my raspberry pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/
The Raspberry Pi is a great way to learn Linux, if anyone is interested.
Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)A friend had one and we spent hours on it, typing basic programs from magazines and the like and then saving them to cassette. I think my first program converted Fahrenheit to Celcius. After that, I modified it to go from Celcius to Fahrenheit optionally as well. God, it was fun and exciting. I can't imagine any kid starting out in programming today to want to do it, though.
I couldn't afford one of my own at the time but later bought a TI-994a and then a Kaypro II.
Fun times.
Archae
(46,260 posts)And the data storage gizmo, a cassette recorder!