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Old July 29, 2008, 07:31 AM
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Nostalgia zone: Anyone remember when floppys were actually floppy? The first computer we had was a Radio Shack TRS-80 which came with an optional external 8" floppy. And a tape drive which stored data at 300 baud.
The TRS-80 aka Coco was my second computer, so much typing and saving to tape to play games in BASIC. My 1st was a Timex Sinclair - i'm not sure of the model though... I was really young, but i remember Frogger on it.


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