LOL Ah yes, the old trash 80! A friend of mine had one (I didn't realize they were so pricey, $399 was off the chart back then!). He would play 'Dungeons of Dagorath' until he passed out from lack of sleep. And 4k - WOW!
Despite that undeserved "trash 80" name, the TRS-80 was an excellent microcomputer. Brings back memories when back in the 80s, I'd write programs out of a magazine called "Rainbow." Good times!
I loved my TRS-80. For the time, they rocked. I learned to program BASIC, recorded my programs on tape on a TRS80 recorder. I had a modem (400 baud, I think), an old dot matrix printer, a few games (Downland, Pyramid, etc.), and I used my color tv as a monitor. As far as I'm concerned, the machine was great. I also used Dow Jones/News Retrieval and Compuserve... that was the later eighties, I believe. Thanks for posting!
I had the first TRS-80 color computer with 32k ram, but the computer overheated alot. I had lots of games on cassette that would load into the memory.
Hehe, I still have mine in the closet somewhere. The keyboard doesn't work, though. Also had the joysticks, played Dungeons of Daggorath on it, which a lot of people believe is the great-grandfather of the Doom-genre. Great game that was.
Eventually they even had a "multi-pak Interface" that let you have more than one cartridge plugged in, like Disk drive ROMPak, Speech/sound pak, the music program Ochestra-90 CC. Hook up the Orchestera-90CC to a CoCo with a pair of Radio Shack Nova 10 20"+ speakers hooked up and let it rip. The bass RUMBLED so much I was surprised! Kicked butt old skool! :)
I remember those. I had a CoCo 3. Though you *don't* want to just insert the program pack in with the computer turned on. It'll blow the machine. They weren't all THAT "instant loading". LOL!
I had one of these, still do actually, it's in the attic. Mine was a bit more high end, it came with 16K and eventually got the 64K upgrade for around $240 if I remember correctly.
OMG! My dad had one of these! The joysticks were crap, but it was kind of fun to write your own programs. And with an amazing amount of memory, too - 4k?!?! LOL! Thanks for the trip down 'memory' lane.
LOL Ah yes, the old trash 80! A friend of mine had one (I didn't realize they were so pricey, $399 was off the chart back then!). He would play 'Dungeons of Dagorath' until he passed out from lack of sleep. And 4k - WOW!
WeirdMinnesotaGuy 3 years ago
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH that is the most ugliest computer EVER
RachelAmyShows 3 years ago
Ahhh yes..... The "Trash 80". Finest boat anchor ever made!
mitchfoster43 3 years ago
I WANT an exciting game arcade!
thinknitude 3 years ago 3
4k... haha...
I still have the 64k model wrapped in plastic in a box in my basement.
phoenix2972 3 years ago 2
10 CLS
20 FOR X=1 to 100
30 BEEP
40 NEXT X
rbryanhull 3 years ago 26
Despite that undeserved "trash 80" name, the TRS-80 was an excellent microcomputer. Brings back memories when back in the 80s, I'd write programs out of a magazine called "Rainbow." Good times!
Skylinesandsunsets 3 years ago 23
I had one of these
i1865 3 years ago
I loved my TRS-80. For the time, they rocked. I learned to program BASIC, recorded my programs on tape on a TRS80 recorder. I had a modem (400 baud, I think), an old dot matrix printer, a few games (Downland, Pyramid, etc.), and I used my color tv as a monitor. As far as I'm concerned, the machine was great. I also used Dow Jones/News Retrieval and Compuserve... that was the later eighties, I believe. Thanks for posting!
JNugent74 3 years ago 8
"cassette recorder not included"....LOL
jethropu 3 years ago 3
I had one with the 16K RAM upgrade. It only cost $384 to go from 4K to 16K. What a deal.
Truly though, this computer was great for it's time and I learned quite a bit from owning one.
cds010101 3 years ago
I am assuming
this was made 100 years ago
and we are still in Iraq as John Mccain wished.
dave98503 4 years ago
my grandpa had one of these and still has it (I think it broke though). that thing would probably only sell for $100 or less now.
22quack 4 years ago
$399
h4ck3rm1k3 4 years ago
I don't think you could fit a Truetype font in 4k these days.
But for it's day, this was a damn nice computer.
RabidDawg2 4 years ago
How many of those things did they sell over the years? I remember even back then they were commonly referred to as Trash 80's.
grumpybb 4 years ago 5
I had the first TRS-80 color computer with 32k ram, but the computer overheated alot. I had lots of games on cassette that would load into the memory.
Geoffr524 4 years ago
I always preferred the TI..
JoeChrisMorris 4 years ago
Amen to my buddy Trash80.... 4K can be kind of cool.
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iamnotapoet 4 years ago
LOL I had one of these too... I am SO OLD!
illuminutti 4 years ago
Hehe, I still have mine in the closet somewhere. The keyboard doesn't work, though. Also had the joysticks, played Dungeons of Daggorath on it, which a lot of people believe is the great-grandfather of the Doom-genre. Great game that was.
Dirtfire 4 years ago
4k is the memory of my old cell lol xD
svaart 4 years ago
One word "wow"
fasterraper 5 years ago
Eventually they even had a "multi-pak Interface" that let you have more than one cartridge plugged in, like Disk drive ROMPak, Speech/sound pak, the music program Ochestra-90 CC. Hook up the Orchestera-90CC to a CoCo with a pair of Radio Shack Nova 10 20"+ speakers hooked up and let it rip. The bass RUMBLED so much I was surprised! Kicked butt old skool! :)
FuzzieDice 5 years ago
I remember those. I had a CoCo 3. Though you *don't* want to just insert the program pack in with the computer turned on. It'll blow the machine. They weren't all THAT "instant loading". LOL!
FuzzieDice 5 years ago
I had one of these, still do actually, it's in the attic. Mine was a bit more high end, it came with 16K and eventually got the 64K upgrade for around $240 if I remember correctly.
hikermick 5 years ago
OMG! My dad had one of these! The joysticks were crap, but it was kind of fun to write your own programs. And with an amazing amount of memory, too - 4k?!?! LOL! Thanks for the trip down 'memory' lane.
Newdae 5 years ago 4