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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
My first computer was a TRS-80 model 1, bought second hand for $600 in 1976. I thought I was buying a really expensive calculator and didn't even know you had to know how to type. I loved it immediately though and myself and family and friends spent countless hours typing in buggy programs from magazines. Must have spent close to $3,000 1970 dollars on peripherals, software etc. Then the guys I knew who worked at Xerox talked me into building an Apple clone, because they said any idiot could solder, me being the idiot of the bunch I guess, but mine was the last one finished and the first one that actually worked 
Helen |
I have my own hot solder stories from that period (Atari 400, Cherry keyboard) that didn't go quite that smooth. The thing worked, fortunately. And the foot healed nicely...