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I bought a Commodore Plus 4 at a yard sale for $5 when they were obsolete. Got a cassette drive off eBay and a cookbook on Basic programming and typed in some of the code examples to run lil programs. Didn’t learn much of anything but it empowered me later to get a book on html and create a website.

I was a TRS-80 Color Computer kid, and I still remember how cool it was to type several pages of code and then play a pretty great version of Zaxxon.

I may have one to five of these

God, I loved my Commodore 64 and the tape drive, which dad eventually upgraded to disk drive.

This was really great. Although I used a TRS-80 and an Atari, I did a lot of typing in programs from magazines. Even had a stand with an attached magnifier and guide ruler.

Another TRS-80 Model I fan here. The game I remember best was Asylum. I also remember that when the spontaneous reboots became too frequent, you disconnected the ribbon cables and used a Pink Pearl eraser on the connectors (tin, not gold, as I recall).

It meeee

They knew what was up when they called them “executables”

EXACTLY

the best part was zero user storage capacity, so you typed for a few hours, played a bit, parents told you to go to bed, and 'helped you out' by turning off your computer while you were asleep, erasing everything.

what the heck is an app?

Had that cassette!

Blue Meanies!

Playing Advent on an LSI-11. Watching people playing "Star Trek" on an IBM 5150. (Throw a photon torpedo into a sector, and poof! No Klingons!)

Oh, you sweet summer children.