abritdownunder
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Last night I was out with some friends who are in town for a few days. They are staying with me and were rather surprised to see a 30 year old TRS-80 sitting on my desk. Phil, who was a Commodore 64 user back in the day, had heard of the TRS-80 line of computers but had never used, or even seen, one before and thought it was very "nice" and could totally understand my obsession. I think he might be online looking for a C-64 sometime soon. Jan thought I was mad and couldn't understand why anyone would want one. The kids thought it was "cool", and liked some of the games.
Anyway, last night we were out having dinner, and the conversation got around to vintage computers. Nothing too technical, just talking about the computers we used back in the 1970s and 80s. Then I was asked what was the one computer I really, really wanted. Tough question as there are a lot of computers I'd like but the computer of my dreams is the TRS-80 Model II, which is pretty rare in Australia, and American Model IIs won't work on our power.
So, I was thinking, what's your dream machine? What's the computer you'd love to own? Or have you already found that computer, and it's sitting in the middle of your collection?
Anyway, last night we were out having dinner, and the conversation got around to vintage computers. Nothing too technical, just talking about the computers we used back in the 1970s and 80s. Then I was asked what was the one computer I really, really wanted. Tough question as there are a lot of computers I'd like but the computer of my dreams is the TRS-80 Model II, which is pretty rare in Australia, and American Model IIs won't work on our power.
So, I was thinking, what's your dream machine? What's the computer you'd love to own? Or have you already found that computer, and it's sitting in the middle of your collection?