I didn't tell you guys about my cool "new" toy!!!

by Nosferatu 12 Replies latest jw friends

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  Nosferatu

  

  I bought this thing at a garage sale a couple of weekends ago for fifty cents. All I had to do was replace the batteries and it works fine!

  It's a TRS-80 Pocket Computer (Model PC-3) that you can program in BASIC. The thing is 23 years old! You can save programs on cassettes (or in my case, burn them onto CDs!) It has a whopping 4K of ram, but the user only gets about 1.2K to play with. That's not a whole heck of a lot, but I was able to program in a nifty little blackjack game, and I'm currently working on a slot machine game. Another pain is typing on the tiny little keyboard.

  

  Also, I think the printer takes thermal paper, and I have no clue where to get that, but I didn't buy it for the printer.

  I always wanted one of these things, and I'm so happy that I found one for fifty cents! Lotsa fun!
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  Ticker

  Sounds like you will get your moneys worth. LOL

  I would had some games to give you a few years ago as I used to own one but unfortunately I got rid of it. Well have fun creating some programs with it, Im sure it will be thrifty entertainment for some time to come.

  Ticker
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  CyrusThePersian

  I used to have one of those! The only thing I did with it was use the calculator part. I also didn't have the nifty printer attachment. Oh well...
  
  CyrusThePersian
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  Arthur

  After describing it to us, I began to think that you payed too much. Oh, by the way, I have some old mayonaise in the fridge if you would like to buy it off me.
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  candidlynuts

  they still sell the thermal feed printer paper at office max / office depot type stores.. i 've seen it there in the past couple of months.

  neat find but i cant see your pics.
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  Kudra

  Neat-o. You sound like my friend when he found a Super-8 video recorder. It was all he could talk about.
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  VM44

  Excellent!

  Good find Nosferatu!

  Now, you will want to download this PC-3 Operations manual!

  http://www2.asub.arknet.edu/wade/pc3manual.htm

  --VM44
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  Confession

  Don't remember the pocket TRS-80--but I have many fond memories of models 3 and 4 when I was in high school. The Trash-80 lives!
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  Twitch

  GOSUB 144000

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  :-)
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  Nosferatu

  Now, you will want to download this PC-3 Operations manual!

  I already did, and I downloaded the program tape that comes with it :)

  I also downloaded the TRS-80 Pocket Computer Programs book.