Subj : Re: R.I.P. John Roach
To   : Ron Lauzon
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Sat Mar 26 2022 10:02 pm

-=> On 03-25-22 08:08, Ron Lauzon wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 -=> Tony Langdon wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 TL> I never had one myself, but the TRS-80 did look nice in its day.  I
 TL> first saw one in a brochure around 1978.

 RL> For a 13 year old geek, it was wonderful.

I was about 10 when I saw that brochure. :)

 RL> My dad was an 8th grade science teacher.  One year he found a TRS-80
 RL> Model I Level I that the PTA had bought the school.  He learned to use
 RL> it, had it upgraded to Level II and bought it home for the summer -
 RL> where I pretty much commandeered it.

 RL> One summer teaching myself BASIC on a 16K computer with only the
 RL> manuals and some example programs started a whole career in Computer
 RL> Science for me.

I tinkered with various 8 bit computers in my teenage years, but it never led
to a career - while I had the aptitude, it didn't completely agree with me
mental health wise, so computers became a tool and a hobby, where I could pace
myself appropriately.


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