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    TRS-80 Pocket Computer - How long do you keep your toys?

    I'm starting to go through my old toys. How long should people keep this stuff around.

    TRS-80 Pocket Computer

    http://www.trs-80.com/trs80-models-pocket.htm




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    Lot of high density parts crammed into this unit



    It used type 675 mercury batteries. Looks like I can no longer get these..


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    Gotta have accessories

    TRS-80 Pocket Computer Cassette Interface





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    I'm pretty sure I have an old VIC 20 and Commodore 64 in my basement somewhere.



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    Love the cassette storage. Thems was the days!
    Most of all I like bulldozers and dirt

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    My TRS, Commodore 64 & 128, Apple II E and other dinosaurs are long gone. Still do have my first PC Internal CD player 1x speed, yeppers 360k and first CD Burner 2x speed. Paid over $200 for each of them.
    The above is opinion & commentary, I am exercising my 1st Amendment rights as a US citizen. Posts are NOT made with any malicious intent.

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    From my experience, it takes atleast 40 years for this stuff to increase in value
    Willful ignorance is the downfall of every major empire in history.

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    40 years... I'm gonna dig a little in my basement. I might have one of my first calculators. The one with the red led numbers

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    This is one of my favorites

    Ti Programmable 59

    A site dedicated to the TI 59

    The TI-59 was the first "real" programmable calculator in the world - you could actually use it to perform some useful work, like solving the system of linear equation, finding the zero of a function or even playing a Hi-Lo game... or the game of chess. Fantastic 960 program steps (nearly 1 kilobyte of RAM), 100 data registers, a variety of built-in functions... it was a dream machine, a personal computer you could afford during the late 1970s. The TI-59 even had peripherals - magnetic cards to save programs, a variety of solid-state ROM modules containing up to 5000 program steps of (mostly engineering) software and a PC100C printer.

    In the old days, amateur programming was "the way to do things", so hundreds of TI-59 owners spent countless hours uncovering TI-59 secrets and writing miraculously optimized programs - saving a single program step (one byte) sometimes took an hour of work. TI-59 programs were distributed via numerous user clubs, and there was a number of TI-59 related publications.

    Although hardly anybody actually uses the TI-59 nowadays, accomplishments of TI-59 programmers deserve to be remembered. This Web site is dedicated to the good old days when people thought that each byte of program memory was important and when computers were truly personal.


    Once again high density electronics



    With Solid State Software



    A little bit more crude than a newer flash drive



    Batteries are on the way out though



    But it still works



    Hmm a GTO button


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    Holy crap. They make a TI 49 app for your smart phone. How cool.


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    Still for sale

    I have had a few of these for almost 30 years and they still work and CPA's and accounts still use the HP12C and the price to sell one has not gone down. Click image for larger version. 

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    See the enclosed link http://shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-of...gpa=pla&ci_kw=

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