On 10/15/2013 1:47 PM, Beco wrote: > On 15 October 2013 04:38, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > >> Beco <rcb <at> beco.cc> writes: >> >>> Is xtrs broken under wheezy? >> >> What is it anyway? A Tandy Trash 80 emulator?
> Hi Stan, > > Yep, its an emulator for TRS-80 ! Please, don't call it by its ugly > nickname (Trash!) :) I say that with affection. I cut my computing teeth on the TRS-80 Model III and IV. I taught myself BASIC, Pascal, and Assembly Language on these machines in the 2nd half of the 80s, in my early teens. > I'm having lots of fun with this emulator. Today I could install a > harddrive, mind you! > It has (I believe, I need to compute it yet) 13 MB!! > > I'll put all software from various disketts I've collected in this single > file. > > Now I just need to make it boot from the HD and I don't need even the OS on > drive :0 anymore. > > As soon as I put a c compiler on it, I'll start using only my TRS-80 to > work. Bye debian! It was nice to be with you! But things evolves, you know! I don't know if C was even available for the TRS-80 back then. If it was it didn't cross my RADAR. > Ahaha! I wonder what my students would do when I ask for the next > assignment: -Do a program that reads 2 numbers and calculates the average, > in C. - Just it, teacher? - Yep. But on a TRS80. LOL. Aww, don't make it so easy. Have them do it in assembler. :) -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/525e0556.2020...@hardwarefreak.com
