• No idea. It was a hand me down from a family friend though, so not current when we had it. At a guess, based on the fact it was the machine I started to learn to code on, it was roughly 1986 when I was 5. Probably had it for two or three years I would have thought

    A strange confluence of memories is the fact I was writing a simple program to teach kids their times tables when Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board in 1988. That supports my memory of two years or so...

  • To be fair, probably cost a pretty fortune...

    Coding our old one was fun. It could only access 4 8Kb chunks of RAM at any one time. To use more, you had to switch between different memory banks.

    Also, to write to disk (5.25" floppy"), you had to code the read/write block by block.

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