@hallmarc The Trash 80 CoCo! My dad owned one.
@hallmarc The TRS-80 was my first computer.
10 FOR I = 1 TO 6
20 PRINT INT(RND(1) * 100) + 1
30 NEXT I
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@Tacitus_Kilgore IIRC, if there was only one variable in the loop or only one loop, you only needed NEXT. Saved a whole 8 bits!
Marvelous!
All the trash 80s I knew were the B&W ones.
@feloneouscat yeah, those were the real business-oriented ones. Some of them ran CP/M on 8½ floppies IIRC. Models I, II, and III. One of my friends who was a couple years older ran a BBS off of his dad's Model III in 1981.
Actually, at the time, the computer that was considered the real business computer was the Apple II. It ran the first spreadsheet and CP/M. It was considered a business computer.
I recall first working with the IBM PC when it was first released. It had almost no software. I literally had to write an editor because there were no editors for it.
@feloneouscat mostly true because they were basically among the first ready-to-run PCs. The killer app was VisiCalc which appeared first on the Apple ][ and followed soon after on the Model I. Heady days!
The three computers that Byte magazine referred to as the "1977 Trinity" of home computing: Commodore PET 2001, Apple II, and TRS-80 Model I
@feloneouscat I had had the COCO for 4 years already and remember being jealous when my friends got an Apple ][e...
@hallmarc 256 colors, so fancy
@b4cks4w I remember when I discovered that the COCO could actually seem to produce more colors than that using a technique called composite artifacting. Programmers in those days had all kinds of unique hacks. It was like the wild west!
I actually still own this machine but now there are web-based emulators that can run anything. The funniest historical bit about this machine is that the 3rd party software developers couldn't use trademarked or copyrighted names so we got titles like Mr Pac, Polaris (Missile Command), Space Raiders, and my favorite, Donkey King!