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Tandys Never Die

Posted by michael on from the they-just-get-dimmer-and-dimmer dept.

kevcol writes: "Great article on the SF Chronicle's website on a school bus driver in Contra Costa County California who heads a Tandy model 100 computer user group. The model 100 was the portable version of the beloved TRS-80 (jokingly known as the 'Trash 80') which was the first computer I ever laid fingers on in high school back in the day..."

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  1. Re:Guys in Glass Houses.... by dougmc · · Score: 4, Funny
    Hmm. Bought on at the local Goodwill computer store a while back for $9.00. I set up a simple program --
    10 A = A + 1
    20 PRINT "Hello there #", $A ;
    30 GOTO 10
    And it's been running this for something like a year now. It's up to 113,869,084.

    The battery is very nice -- it let it keep going even while we moved offices and lost power :)