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    From Codefenix@FREEWAY/CONCHAOS to All on Thu Feb 18 10:40:23 2021
    My dad was the store manager at the local RadioShack store in my hometown. That meant I grew up in a Tandy household during the 80s. It was a fun time to be a kid interested in tech.

    Our first home computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. A couple years later we got a Tandy 1000, a fine computer that I still think outclassed much of its peers at the time.

    The last Tandy computer we owned was a Tandy 2500 SX, a 386 PC running at a blazing 20 MHz with a whopping 3 MB of RAM (it was a banner day when we maxxed it out to 5 MB). It was the PC that I first used to connect to BBSes using its internal modem... I was WAY late to the BBS party.

    I do still have my Color Computer 3 that I got for Christmas back in 5th (or 6th?) grade. Still runs like a champ. Occasionally I like to use it for BBSing.
    Here's a photo I posted on Reddit of it a few months back:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/ifeuky/doing_some_bbs_hop ping_from_my_tandy_color/

    You know what they say: "One's TRaSh-80 is another's treasure," or something to that effect.
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  • From Nelgin@FREEWAY to Codefenix on Fri Feb 19 04:20:52 2021
    Codefenix wrote:
    My dad was the store manager at the local RadioShack store in my hometown.
    That
    meant I grew up in a Tandy household during the 80s. It was a fun time to be
    a
    kid interested in tech.

    Our first home computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. A couple years later
    we
    got a Tandy 1000, a fine computer that I still think outclassed much of its peers at the time.

    The first computer I used was a Video Genie which was somewhat of a TRS-80 clone, with a built in tape deck and all. It'd be interesting to play with one for the nostalgia.
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  • From 8-Bit@FREEWAY to Codefenix on Fri Feb 19 08:03:29 2021
    Thanks for the share. I never had a TRS-80 of any kind as a kid but I
    remember going to Radio Shack many times to play on them. When I got to
    middle school and high school, we had various TRS-80 computers in the
    computer labs. Great times.

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