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The DailyWTF post What the Ad? - Portability, 1980's Style featured the TRS-80, which just happens to be the nifty little device that gave me my first taste of programming - all the way back in Std 1 (that's 3rd grade for those who don't know their lekker from their kiff).

It was used in a course run by the local Technical College - each kid in the class had his/her own computer (I think ours were made by Sharp). The teacher had a docking station in a brief case which included a little printer. We coded in Basic, line by line, but you could go back and edit if I remember correctly. Great fun and lots of good memories.

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The similarities don't stop at looks though: The device has a roughly 10-inch cdl test screen, fast processor (a 1.6 GHz Atom versus the iPad's A4 1GHz unit--the A4's actually more powerful), and similar weight (1.03kg compared to Apple's 0.73kg). It's actually cheaper than the chmm exam iPad, though, at around $440 compared to the iPad's entry level $499. And for that $440 you seem to get more than Apple delivers--it's got a 160GB hard drive, 3 USB ports, VGA and RJ45 sockets, and a card reader.Impressive. But naplex test here's two things you don't get with the P88: Battery life and genuine Apple design and UI. The P88 lasts a mere 1.5 hours unplugged from a wall-wart, compared to the iPad's promised 10 hour power. And since it sports Windows XP, cen test the user experience differences to the iPad's slick interactivity will be obvious to everyone.

Well, if you check out this link, you can see that this computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 was almost the big daddy of the original 'personal' computer (i.e. a computer that didn't need a nearby power station and a spare basement to accommodate it). This was my first taste of computers at the age of 15 or 16 and it also ran basic. I can remember a few afternoons of programming...

What amazes me more than this computer, which is really cool, is that someone had the foresight to convince someone to spend money on this thing in an era where a computer was a real 'out there' device. This was part of the computer revolution which has culminated in the era of now where everyone takes the use of a computer, and an internet, for granted. We could even buy disks from the stationery shop, and the fact that it was in stock was the result of some incredible foresight.....

Radio Shack! What an unfortunate brand name for a (for the time) high tech device that along with others would almost change the course of history......predating both the original Apple and the IBM PC by at least a couple of years..

Basic, although an invitation for messy programming, is nicely direct in getting staight through to what you want done. No little preamble and dance around the issue, just straight to the point: from x = 1 to 10......bang. No declarations types and all that b*lls**t just do it. I liked that attitude...

Anyway, strange how the model numbers are the same......

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