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Zebidee:

--- Quote from: Zebidee on March 01, 2009, 10:59:56 am ---
--- Quote from: fiscap on February 27, 2009, 04:08:44 pm ---Time Bandit was also the title of a game for the TRS-80 Color Computer released by Color Shack in 1983 - a loose interpretation of Tutankham.

http://nitros9.lcurtisboyle.com/timebandit.html

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Was that a TRS-80? they only came out in B&W, surely. I had one as a kid. Or was it a expansion available later? The original TRS-80 came with 16k RAM + B&W.

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wiki'ed it - TRS80 color Computer was a different computer to the original TRS80 (just to be confusing).
TOK:
Pronounced TRaSh 80 for those who've never used one.
 
I learned BASIC on a mighty dual floppy black and white trash 80, then smoked a dime bag, listened to Dio and forgot all of it except what the computer was.  ;D

Zebidee:

--- Quote from: TOK on March 01, 2009, 12:36:57 pm ---Pronounced TRaSh 80 for those who've never used one.
 
I learned BASIC on a mighty dual floppy black and white trash 80, then smoked a dime bag, listened to Dio and forgot all of it except what the computer was.  ;D



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Ours was a TRS-80 clone by Dick Smith Electronics, called a "System 80".  It was so retro that it even had wood-grain panels on the sides.  It had a cassette drive, so when loading programs you would sit there for 15 minutes with your fingers crossed, hoping that some bit a static glitch wouldn't creep into the load and cause a checksum error ....

It is still in a cupboard somewhere!
MrMojoZ:
I did PC support for Tandy for a few years many moons ago, we got to meet the guy who originally designed the TRS-80.  :laugh2:
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