I'm a programmer (started on TRS-80), and I'm helping my 17 years old nephew learn to program. We've done a little of everything over the last few years, but recently we watched Ben Eater's 8 bit computer series on youtube, where he literally builds a computer from logic gates and simple chips on breadboards. He does an incredible job of explaining how computers work, and I think anyone learning to program would benefit from his series.
I got my Model I TRS-80 in 1979, and it still works like a charm. I just fired it up last week. I never got the disk drives, so it's the cassette model, 16k Level 2 Basic. I have the expansion interface, but it's not hooked up. I learned assembly on that thing, played Scott Adams Adventures, Big Five arcade games, Microsoft's Flight Simulator.
And just last year I started learning how it actually works (I know/knew nothing about hardware) by watching Ben Eater's amazing videos. Better late than never!
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I'm a programmer (started on TRS-80), and I'm helping my 17 years old nephew learn to program. We've done a little of everything over the last few years, but recently we watched Ben Eater's 8 bit computer series on youtube, where he literally builds a computer from logic gates and simple chips on breadboards. He does an incredible job of explaining how computers work, and I think anyone learning to program would benefit from his series.
I got my Model I TRS-80 in 1979, and it still works like a charm. I just fired it up last week. I never got the disk drives, so it's the cassette model, 16k Level 2 Basic. I have the expansion interface, but it's not hooked up. I learned assembly on that thing, played Scott Adams Adventures, Big Five arcade games, Microsoft's Flight Simulator. And just last year I started learning how it actually works (I know/knew nothing about hardware) by watching Ben Eater's amazing videos. Better late than never!