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I was looking up information on the old Tandy (Radio Shack/Texas Instruments) TRS-80 Color Computer 2 64k. CoCo to us loyal users. I had not thought about this system in a long long time. It was the competitor to the Commodore 64. I think the Commodore had a better run due to the fact its name rhymes with 64. No actually the Commodore had more and better games that’s why (more BBS’s to connect to for “sharing games”) It was Christmas’s of 83’ and my dad was the type to go overboard on presents. (only child also) I got almost everything they sold that computer. The only games came in the form of cartridges like Atari, tape games, (text driven and yes they were metal/crome audio tapes just push play =)or you had to type in a program in basic and save it to tape or the rare to have at the time floppy. There was a magazine called Rainbow. No not that type of Rainbow mag. It was a geeky little thing that had hardware reviews and in the back it had programs you could study and run on you computer by typing them in. Most of this stuff can be bought on Ebay for under $20. Good thing I didn’t save everything thinking it would be worth something. There was a paint program that allowed me to use my printer to make calendars and banners.(remember making banners god we used apple 2E’s at school to make them .playing Karatika also ruled) I alos had a $300 mouse back then too. It was only good for their paint program since there was no “windows” interface, just a command console like DOS. My dad had a program that he used to categorize his VHS movies like a database for all 300 of them. The flight simulator was great too. Tron came out around the same time and was a great movie I could really relate to. “Greetings! Program.” Anyway enough rambling it’s the 21st century right.

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