TRS-80

Well continuing my stroll down memory lane…the TRS-80 Level II 16K. My 1st personal computer bought for me by my parents while I was going to school to learn mini & mainframe computers. The display was 64×16 and it ran @1.78MHz.. External storage was on cassette tapes. Way before the Internet, you had to be entertained by the computer itself and not social interactions and Likes! I spent many hours on my TRS-80. Anyway I discovered the xtrs TRS-80 emulator which seemed to work very well. However this screenshot on my Linux desktop is from another TRS-80 emulator ported from xtrs…sdltrs. This emulator allows for a larger screen display as shown here. Another feature it has over xtrs is cut & paste. Notice the massive 48K of storage. It really was massive compared to the 16K on my computer. I hope to find my old programs [on cassette tape] someday and run the Star Trek program that I painstakingly typed in from a book, and a Yahtzee program I wrote myself someday. The Star Trek program ran almost the same as the DEC PDP 11 computer at my school. You would travel to various sectors attacking and defending against the Klingon’s by firing phasers and photon torpedos, in stunning ASCII. Very cool at the time!

TRS-80 Emulated
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