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dsigma6 · #1 Post by **dsigma6** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:40 pm

According to this guy at least...

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/sys/194428255.html

Sounds like a great price too!

Turbo Audi · #2 Post by **Turbo Audi** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 11:49 am

...and i just bought a crappy T60!

#3 Post by **BillMorrow** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 3:22 pm

perhaps the hapless poster forgot to add the "RS" in the T-80 which would yield TRS-80..

which, in those days, was known as the Trash-80..

#4 Post by **carbon_unit** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:39 pm

Hey now! I got started using computers on a TRS-80 model III.

kstuart · #5 Post by **kstuart** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 1:48 pm

Turbo Audi wrote:...and i just bought a crappy T60!

You just reminded me of one of my favorite TV ads, from about 5 years ago:

- You see a happy guy driving home in his convertible with a box in his back seat, which is a new PC which proclaims on the box: " The all new state-of-art T-17 Personal Computer " with a picture of the PC.

- He drives by a billboard just as the sign workers finish putting up a new ad: " Introducing the all new state-of-the-art T-18 Personal Computer !! "

(The ad was for an ISP that leases you a PC so you never have to buy a computer that gets obsolete. )

The great part of the ad is how it quickly and visually depicted the concepts of the pace of digital product development and how that impacts consumers.

christopher_wolf · #6 Post by **christopher_wolf** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:00 pm

I remember that commercial.

It really did fit the feeling at the time, didn't it?

#7 Post by **BillMorrow** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 12:15 am

carbon_unit wrote:Hey now! I got started using computers on a TRS-80 model III.

i, like the current pope, was only quoting historical opinion of others and not making any political judgment..

but if this offends, i will withdraw my commentary on historical fact..

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