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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 8, 2011 10:26:01 GMT -5
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Post by JGRobinson on Apr 8, 2011 11:02:16 GMT -5
The Vic 20was a mainstay, like the Tandy Color Computer or Co Co as we called them.
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Post by dgriffin on Apr 8, 2011 16:23:48 GMT -5
I had a CoCo and a Vic20, but I didn't use them for standard computer applications. The Vic 20 was an early favorite of amateur radio operators for transmission of RTTY (radio teletype via FSK.) The Coco less so because trying to operate one in an RF environment was difficult.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 8, 2011 16:56:15 GMT -5
I was late coming to the home computer world myself, but I purchased a Tandy for my middle son when he was in about the 7th grade. My ex wife is a teacher and she guided him through learning to use it. I myself never sat down to a keyboard until the late 80's when I had an old Z-100 land on my desk along with a passel of floppy discs necessary to make it do anything except hold down the blotter. Wasn't long before it was supplemented with a tractor drive dot matrix printer that weighed as much as my pick up truck. LOL. I just about got carpal tunnel just changing discs and the flickering green on black monitor built in sent me home with a headache on more than one occasion.  Thank goodness we have advanced beyond THOSE primitive machines, haha. |
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Post by JGRobinson on Apr 8, 2011 18:04:32 GMT -5
I learned to fix micro processor controlled devices via the coco's pretty simple compared to even a 286.
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Post by Ralph on Apr 9, 2011 1:00:55 GMT -5
Ahhhh....those were the days! I had the VIC-20, extra memory and the damn tape drive as well. BASIC was just that....basic. But my very first computer was a Timex Sinclair ZX81. Had a bomb of a flight simulator program!!! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX81Clipper....My ex decide she was going to buy a "PC" for the house when the kids were in school. Got a great deal on one the Red Cross was getting rid of. Took two trips in her van to get the thing home!!! BOXES of floppys and assorted pieces parts, some huge processing unit, gigundo dual floppy drive, a video terminal that was microscopic and a tractor drive printer that rocekted across the room when it returned the carriage. She wondered why I laughed at her when she got it all home!!! I almost bust a gut just getting all the junk in the house. Hell, if I used it as a boat anchor it would have drug my boat to the bottom of the river!! |
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Post by JGRobinson on Apr 9, 2011 15:05:37 GMT -5
A buddy of mine in Germany Bought the ZX 81, I could't figure out how to make it fart much less do anything. No Windows on that one. He ETS'ed afew weeks after, never did find out if he figured out how to use it....
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