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Old 02-14-2010, 12:10 AM  
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You youngin's and your modern computers. Here's my first computer:



It at 16k of RAM (with 5 "wait states"! (Anybody remember wait states?)), a 1 MHZ Z80 Processor, A Monochrome screen which was really a TV with the VHF, UHF and Volume control knobs removed (see picture!), and of course a cassette player to save and load programs at a speed 500 baud. It could display 80 x 24 characters per screen, and had a graphics resolution of 128 x 48 (Not much banner than a banner ad now that I think of it!). The pixels depth was only 2 bit, meaning On or Off. No colors, no shades of grey.

The coolest thing about this computer and all others of the era was actually the lack of power. It forced programmers to be very tight with their code, and game players to use lots of imagination.

Long Live the TRS-80.
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