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Torchlight

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14. I joined out HS science club just to access the TRS computer

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Tue Apr 22, 2025, 03:30 PM

Apr 2025

The sponsor, our physics teacher, had the only computer I knew of anyone owning at the time (I think this was '82). We'd spend every second Tuesday in his den playing what was to me the most incredible, amazing war simulation ever imagined (though it was a text-only game with the weird green dos type on a fuzzy black screen).

Digital has coopted the world like nothing I can think of since Gutenburg.

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what was the first true ( business) computer u trained on. mine was a ibm system 32 w 3741 data station. [View all] AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 OP

First was a 'dumb' terminal EYESORE 9001 Apr 2025 #1

Don't remember the machine but what a pain it was to use. dreamland Apr 2025 #2

eww, keypunching. gah. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #4

A clone. I hadn't thought of that term in a long time! CrispyQ Apr 2025 #3

Mainframe with big boxes of punched cards, even for simple programs. Silent Type Apr 2025 #5

GE 635 in 1968 lapfog_1 Apr 2025 #6

Color this tech impressed. cayugafalls Apr 2025 #8

the company that bought it didn't know what to do with it lapfog_1 Apr 2025 #10

you could get those side panels in any color(s) you wanted lapfog_1 Apr 2025 #11

ohh , ohhh, the holy grail of computing. AllaN01Bear Apr 2025 #16

IBM 360 Model 20. The year was 1965. sinkingfeeling Apr 2025 #7

In the newsroom, mid-late 90's... FirstLight Apr 2025 #9

Commodore's Amiga Earl_from_PA Apr 2025 #13

Two types of computers LogDog75 Apr 2025 #12

I joined out HS science club just to access the TRS computer Torchlight Apr 2025 #14

Not 100% Sure, To Be Honest ProfessorGAC Apr 2025 #15