01
Oct
Adding to my nerdiness
Some people are surprised at my low (42%) nerd score. Let me help assure you of my nerdiness through a little nostalgia…
The other day I decided to search to see if any information was out there for the TRS-80 Color Computer. My first computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. You can see a picture here but the information isn’t quite correct since ours came with 32K RAM. The CoCo2 was just a smaller package and nicer keyboard. The CoCo3 offered a faster processor, more memory, and better graphics. How much better was it? People are still hacking away on it! In 2000 a game similar to Castle Wolfenstein 3D was made for it. Sure it was low resolution, but this is a 2MHz processor we’re talking about here and it does it! People have also built IDE controllers for it, SCSI controllers, someone is working on ethernet. It makes me want to pull out the computer, get this stuff, and start playing again!
Why does this add to my nerdiness? I still have mine all boxed up in the shed because I can’t bear to throw away my first computer and I went to two conventions centered around these computers when I was in high school.