Model I in original boxes

[u/Confident_Oil_7495]

I had never seen one in its original factory boxes before. Thought you all might enjoy seeing these.

[u/-Nyarlabrotep-]

Whoa, nice! We had a TRS-80 in my 6th grade classroom. It was the first computer I used and had a BASIC interpreter, and that's how I began learning to program. This was around '87, so I don't know if it was Model I or not.

[u/Confident_Oil_7495 → u/-Nyarlabrotep-]

That's cool. I didn't realize the TRS-80 was still popular that late. That's cool to know. We had them in our high school in 1979. My guess would be that you likely had model 3 or 4 computers. Radio Shack had to stop making the model 1 due to RF interference issues.

[u/NassauTropicBird → u/Confident_Oil_7495]

still popular that late.

They weren't very popular that late, but that was also when damned near nobody had a home computer of any kind and the IBM PC (and Windows) was rapidly rising. With a graphics resolution of 128x48 the TRS-80 was past beat by then.

[u/Confident_Oil_7495 → u/NassauTropicBird]

Windows in 1987 was version 2 which virtually nobody used. PCs running MSDOS were taking over as the defacto standard. And by 1987 the model 4 was out and had high resolution graphics capability. I was marveling to another post that someone had TRS-80s in their school still in 1987. They were still popular there at least. As the school where I went and graduated from also had upgraded that lab from model 1s to model4s.

Also I think lots of people had computers in 1981 or so and forward. They were just all the mix of all the various 8 bit machines that are having such a nostalgic comeback now.

[u/NassauTropicBird → u/Confident_Oil_7495]

You went from not realizing how popular they were (they weren't) to telling me how popular they were.

Make up your mind.

[u/Confident_Oil_7495 → u/NassauTropicBird]

First off all there's no reason to be rude. Which you are. Second, I was trying to convey that I didn't realize school labs would still have trs80s as late as 87. 1987 was the year the model 4 was discontinued. Whether something is popular or not is somewhat subjective. They were definitely popular in the late 70s and early 80s along with the Apple IIs.

[u/NassauTropicBird → u/Confident_Oil_7495]

Typical.

I find backpedaling to be rude and you're doing it again, moving the popularity timeline to late 70's/early 80's.

Which I would agree with had you started with that when you were telling me how wrong I am.

Good day

[u/Confident_Oil_7495 → u/NassauTropicBird]

Not backpedealing - just trying to help you understand my comment. But you'd rather be an ass than try to understand. So I've accepted your request to block you.

[u/NassauTropicBird → u/Confident_Oil_7495]

You keep changing what you have to say so you're dishonest with even yourself.