Another look back.

A look into the past.

April 30, 2010

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Tandy SX

Ah, another look into the past "snicker". It has been a bit since I have posted a retro post. So here it is. This is an add for the first 80X86 based computer I ever worked with. My brother Tony Trulson, purchased this for himself at the Citadel mall Radio Shack in 1988 for I am sure was a chunk of gold at the time. So impressive! Not one, but two 5 1/4th inch floppy drives! You could actually copy a floppy from drive A: to drive B: OMG!!! It came with 384k of RAM and he spent about a grand to get it to 640K all so we could play Ikari Warriors (the only game that needed that amount at that time). I totally got hooked on all the Sierra games on this box (King's Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest). Also this is the box that I learned how to program on and created my first original program which was a map of the catacombs on Bard's Tale under the city of Skara Brae. It got heavily circulated around the BBS community at that time. If you played Bard's Tale, and you had a map of the Catacombs.....well that was mine :) Ah, those were the days.

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