My name is Bob and I enjoy collecting, repairing and restoring old computers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My favorite is the early-80s Radio Shack TRS-80 line. When I was around 13 years old, I worked all summer to save up enough to purchase a TRS-80 Model III. I found one in a magazine for a good price — and it included an amber monitor. I ordered it and waited excitedly for it to arrive. The day it arrived, I open the box, spun it up and — the monitor displayed nothing! I called the company and arranged to have it shipped back. You can only image my heart-break. The next day, my grandmother took me to the new Radio Shack computer center in our town and paid the difference for a slightly more expensive Model III. I was so grateful for that niceness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I could not afford floppy drives for the machine — and 16k of RAM was the only option within my budget. I was relegated to saving programs on cassette tape. Good times!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I programmed on that thing just about daily — often deep into the night. Many memories on that machine — more than 16k worth anyway!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here we are in the 21st century and I now possess what I could only dream about back then. I mean… two <\/em>floppy drives? 64k<\/em> RAM? Crazy talk! My collection consists of a bunch of old TRS-80s as well as other assorted old-tech. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Welcome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My name is Bob and I enjoy collecting, repairing and restoring old computers. My favorite is the early-80s Radio Shack TRS-80 line. When I was around 13 years old, I worked all summer to save up enough to purchase a TRS-80 Model III. I found one in a magazine for a good price — and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retrocomputeruser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}