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TRS-80 Model III ad (1981)
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BilSabab lemmy.world BilSabab@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Duchess piefed.linenoise.vip Duchess@piefed.linenoise.vip
Joined: 2026-08-31
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love this machine, learned to program in BASIC on it ♥️ my first program was an interactive insult generator! didn’t have the 5.25” disk drives though had to use a cassette player for games.

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Ninja876 lemmy.world Ninja876@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-01
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I had one of those as a kid! We also had the audio tape drive, nothing worse than popping off the "line out" and hear that scream of the data...

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Mulligrubs lemmy.world Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-11
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Kids, this would cost $8K in today dollars, at least.

(I'm a Commodore PET guy)

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DarkCloud lemmy.world DarkCloud@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-05-19
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Kraftwerk

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EmpathicVagrant lemmy.world EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
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Kids, this would cost $8K in today dollars, at least. (I'm a Commodore PET guy)

9100 with inflation only, so likely $18-22K today. With shortages and other factors.

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Gerudo lemmy.zip Gerudo@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-28
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Weird fact, almost any demo account you saw on a Windows 8-11 machine in a retail store had trs80 as the account password.

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BilSabab lemmy.world BilSabab@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-19
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Weird fact, almost any demo account you saw on a Windows 8-11 machine in a retail store had trs80 as the account password.

really? that's interesting

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