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========================================================================= Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 13:32:18 -0600
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Tony R. Wickersham" <TWick@UWYO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Card Readers- university courses in old computers
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>>Obviously, I can't store one of every kind of old computer, but I can cheaply build a small inventory of the most popular models.
A postscript to my previous message...
I should have hung on to my TRS-80 Model 1 a little longer! At least five years ago, I gave it to a daycare that was still using one. It originally cost me well over $1,000 (1978 or 79) to acquire. But it was just using space in my basement. I still have my two (don't ask) TRS-80 Model 100 portables. They still work. And one will last all day on a set of 4 AA NiCads! My boys play games on them, occasionally. I intend to begin teaching programming to my oldest son on the Model 100. Simple BASIC. No consequence-environment where file deletes won't matter. Take one anywhere. And owning two of them means we work side-by-side. Maybe I'll eventually decide to donate one or both to the archives where I work. Don't know what I'd do about maintaining the RAM button battery, though. At home, I put used AA alkalines in to keep the button battery charged. Didn't have that problem with the Model 1!
Tony Wickersham
Computer Programmer
University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
twick@uwyo.edu
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: "Tony R. Wickersham" <TWick@UWYO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Card Readers- university courses in old computers
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Content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
>>Obviously, I can't store one of every kind of old computer, but I can cheaply build a small inventory of the most popular models.
A postscript to my previous message...
I should have hung on to my TRS-80 Model 1 a little longer! At least five years ago, I gave it to a daycare that was still using one. It originally cost me well over $1,000 (1978 or 79) to acquire. But it was just using space in my basement. I still have my two (don't ask) TRS-80 Model 100 portables. They still work. And one will last all day on a set of 4 AA NiCads! My boys play games on them, occasionally. I intend to begin teaching programming to my oldest son on the Model 100. Simple BASIC. No consequence-environment where file deletes won't matter. Take one anywhere. And owning two of them means we work side-by-side. Maybe I'll eventually decide to donate one or both to the archives where I work. Don't know what I'd do about maintaining the RAM button battery, though. At home, I put used AA alkalines in to keep the button battery charged. Didn't have that problem with the Model 1!
Tony Wickersham
Computer Programmer
University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
twick@uwyo.edu
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