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My Ode to the TRS-80: Thanks for the Geek Memories
By C.C. Holland / Managing Editor, ZDNet AnchorDesk

The 20th anniversary of IBM's breakthrough PC conjures memories of such wonders as Radio Shack's Trash 80, says C.C. Holland.


I have a confession to make: I am not, technically, a computer geek.



Sure, I write about technology; it's my job. But my geekiness is to some extent a carefully constructed façade. Yes, I know HTML and can maneuver my way around a system registry. But at a barbecue or baseball game, I'd rather be chatting about my tennis backhand, George W. Bush's latest gaffe, or the state of print journalism than talking about microprocessors, storage media, or screen resolutions.

But yet...but yet...somewhere back in the dark reaches of time, I was--for a brief, shining few moments--a true geek. The impending 20th anniversary of the PC gives me cause to look back at those days.
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As an aside here:
I recall assisting a buddy of mine with a game he was trying to build on his new Tandy while stationed at Fort Davis, Panama, back in 1983. Hooked up to a little Sony Trinatron, the game was called Escape From Oz, complete with little Toto running ahead of Dorothy on the Yellow Brick Road. You had 5 Totos, with replacement capability depending upon points. I don’t think he ever got it beyond Alpha Test.

Toto was a minesweeper.
(What d’ya want? We were Infantry!)

It wouldn’t be until ’88 that I would finally get my first PC. A nifty little Commodore.

Cheers,
Dan