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The Right Stuff - the TRS-80 Oldtimer Centre
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Description: This site is devoted to the computers and computing culture of 1975-1990, from a personal perspective and often with a "down under" flavour.
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A RadioShack TRS-80 Model 1, one of the original "trinty" of off-the-shelf microcomputers released in 1977
Ever since I saw a TRS-80 Model 1 playing Blackjack back in 1979, I've had a fascination with microcomputers.
Of course these days computers (we've stopped calling them microcomputers) are simply consumables, and have also morphed into common household gadgets such as personal assistants and trackers, smartphones and tablets. Not only is computing technology everywhere, but it is also inexpensive, reliable and increasingly more powerful. Storage is now spoken in terms of terabytes, and cloud computing and A.I. are the latest frontiers. However, back in those pre-Internet/pre-Windows years from 1975-86 computers wer
Dave's OSI repository
The Right Stuff - the TRS-80 Oldtimer Centre
84—24