> Anyways nice to meet you old fellar, and by the way im from Hastings in
> the UK...
I've never been to the UK or to Europe. But I'd like to go there. I'm a
native Okie (from Oklahoma), but I lived in California and now in Texas for
18 years each.
I don't know nuthin' 'bout no impedances or attenuators, but I wrote a 13 KB
program in that TRS-80's 4K Level I BASIC to compute income taxes in
1977-78, long before TurboTax (which you Brits may have heard about). When
I left my CPA firm in California in 1980, my partners were still using the
upgraded version of that (in Level II BASIC by then). Yes, the TRS-80 ran
the Z80 CPU from Zilog; they put that "80" together with the initials for
Tandy Radio Shack to create "TRS-80". Later they called mine the Model I.
I still have the original "preliminary" owner's manual, still with the
yellow slip that says, "When we get the real manual printed, we'll send it
to you."
In 1980, I actually SAW an Apple III! And years later, I saw a Lisa! My
slightly-modified Tandy 2000 (80186, 786 KB RAM, SyJet cartridge drive) is
still in my closet; hasn't been plugged in in a decade or more.
I miss the days when we could buy a computer magazine and type in a program
from there and run it to do something fun or useful. Nowadays, computer
magazines don't tell us HOW to DO something. Just what to BUY. They're
just slick catalogs.
Oh, well. 'Nuff reminiscing for today. The youngsters here are getting
bored. ;^}
RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX rc@grandecom.net
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)
"GrahamH" <graham@harrison3951.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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>>
> . My first computer was the original
>> TRS-80 in 1977 > R.C.White
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> LOL your as old as me then !!!!
>
> Myfirst pc was as AppleII plus and guess what .... ive still got it !!!!!
> Dont know if if still works but maybe ill boot it up someday.
> Also had a TRS80 it was a good pc for its time i think it had a Z80 cpu.
> I used to like writing simple software in basic for the appleII and TRS80
> as they used very similar basic and i remember doing one that calculates
> resistor values for attenuators of various types like series and parrallel
> with given impedances for output/input.
> Oh good days... sadly my brain is not so fast now hehe.
> I just like to tinker and keep things sensible without overcomplicating
> it, as i find i just go round in circles trying to sort out the bugs and
> my brain is not what it used to be.!!. Ive got 3 working pc`s and some
> older ones stored in the cupboard like a spectrum 48k and an Amiga plus of
> course the AppleII.
> Im about to put Xubunto on an older pc together with Dos and W98 and keep
> it for in case i need to run some old piece of software, you never know.
> Something to play with that wont destroy my main pc.!!
> I was thinking of trying Ubunto on my main pc at a later date but i dont
> need the hassle yet.
> Anyways nice to meet you old fellar, and by the way im from Hastings in
> the UK...
> Best wishes,
> Graham...........
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