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Archive for December 6, 2008

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Old computers bring back old memories

The Obsolete Technology Website  is a great resource for photos, chronological history, and features of computers that kicked off the pc revolution.  These computers bring back a lot of memories and it is hard to believe that most of them are only 4k-128k in memory while the memory card in my cellphone is 8,000,000,000k (8 gig).

I owned the Radio Shack TRS-80 Color Computer (that my parents bought me as a Christmas present) which provided hours and hours of fun and learning even though really all it could do is play chess and write BASIC programs.  I think I had a couple other games as well.   The computer attached to a cassette player to save programs on tape.  I wish I still had that thing.

Check out the web site to see what you used to have.

 

This was a big part of my childhood

 

Ad for the TRS-80 Color Computer