I was also greatly influenced by the TRS-80. Mr. Cohen, a math professor at my junior high school, who won a TRS-80 Model 1 in a Radio Shack giveaway. He brought the computer in to the school and allowed my friend Arthur and I to spend a great deal of time with it. Our art teacher even let us experiment with using the computer for computer art (not that you could do that much with 4K and Level I BASIC).
That was followed by the further good fortune of my father winning $500 in the lottery around Christmas time and getting me my own TRS-80 (16K and Level II BASIC!!). The TRS-80 certainly changed my life, too.
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I was also greatly influenced by the TRS-80. Mr. Cohen, a math professor at my junior high school, who won a TRS-80 Model 1 in a Radio Shack giveaway. He brought the computer in to the school and allowed my friend Arthur and I to spend a great deal of time with it. Our art teacher even let us experiment with using the computer for computer art (not that you could do that much with 4K and Level I BASIC). That was followed by the further good fortune of my father winning $500 in the lottery around Christmas time and getting me my own TRS-80 (16K and Level II BASIC!!). The TRS-80 certainly changed my life, too.