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Old 01-20-2010, 01:09 PM
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I had a Radio Shack color computer hooked up to a tv. It had 4K of memory. That's right 4 "K"! I had dial-up to what was probably the first online service, Compuserve. It was a text only service. I used to fool around with programming using "BASIC" from a how-to book sold by Radio Shack. This was probably around 1979. The other big computer Radio Shack sold back then was the TRS-80. It was their original offering. Programming was stored on an audio cassette tape! Whoa, we've come a long way.
Yes we have. I have a true story about a friend of mine who also had a Color Computer and we had a little club of enthusiasts. Anyway, after upgrading his memory and doing all we could to be in the technology main stream, he decided to buy a 5 1/4 in Disk Drive. He called a place in Massachusetts to make the order and the sales lady asked how many disks he wanted. He said, as serious as could be, "Well I can't imagine ever needing more than one." We HAVE come a long way. Do you remember the Rainbow Computer Magazine. People would write Basic code and publish it in the magazine and we'd type it in to our computer. I used to write programs in Basic so the kids could practice their math facts and many times I out-wrote the memory in the computer.