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Radio Shack's TRS-80 turns 35 today. Please don't call it "Trash-80."

7 pointsby technologizeralmost 13 years ago

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geophilealmost 13 years ago
I loved my TRS 80. It was an affordable computer, and I could hack on it in Z80 assembler or BASIC. (I loaded the assembler from a cassette tape, played on a Radio Shack cassette player.) I really liked the PDP-11 instruction set, and thought that the Z80 was a better approximation of it than the 6502 available in the Apple ][.