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|  Message 726  |
|  Josh Allen-Clark to JIMMY ANDERSON  |
|  Re: Hello!  |
|  13 Feb 20 19:25:00  |
 TZUTC: -0800 MSGID: 231.classicc@1:218/601 22ab2294 PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Sep 6 2019 GCC 7.4.0 TID: SBBSecho 3.09-Linux r3.140 Sep 6 2019 GCC 7.4.0 CHRS: ASCII 1 On 02-09-20, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Josh Allen-Clark: >------------------------------------- My first real exposure to computers was my favorite teacher bringing his TRS-80 Model III with dual floppy to school. He had written a math program in BASIC to show some stuff to the class, but then let me hang out and pour through the disks and disks of stuff! That's where I heard about Scott Adams and the text adventures!!! >------------------------------------- My uncle swiped my Trash-80 M3 from the dumpster of the high school where he worked at the time, which I attended around 10 years later. My senior year, I took a class they called Tech Group. We basically were the unofficial IT department of the high school under the tutelage of the district's technology coordinator. One of our first tasks was to clean out and organize a storage area for us to use. Buried wayyyyyy in the back was one last Trash-80 that somehow missed the dumpster all of those years ago. My classmates had never seen one, but I instantly was like "I had one of these when I was a kid!". I can't remember now if there were any disks with it... I do remember I booted it up and threw together a quick little program in BASIC to demo some things that I remembered. I asked if I could take it home but was told I couldn't because it was still "district property" and I'm sure it ended up in eWaste somewhere... what a shame. -Josh ------- This copy of Freddie 1.0 is being evaluated. --- SBBSecho 3.09-Linux * Origin: The Wastelands BBS 1:218/601 (1:218/601) SEEN-BY: 1/123 14/5 15/0 18/200 19/36 34/999 90/1 106/201 116/18 120/331 SEEN-BY: 123/140 128/2 153/7715 218/700 222/2 226/16 227/114 229/426 SEEN-BY: 229/452 981 1014 230/150 152 240/1120 5832 249/1 206 317 SEEN-BY: 249/400 250/1 261/38 100 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/1031 SEEN-BY: 282/1056 291/1 111 317/3 320/119 219 322/757 340/400 342/13 SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 633/0 267 280 281 408 410 412 414 640/1321 SEEN-BY: 640/1384 712/620 848 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105 3634/12 5020/1042 SEEN-BY: 5053/58 PATH: 218/601 700 261/38 712/848 633/280 229/426 |
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