Sir Clive Sinclair - Rest in Peace

I remember the TRS 80 and to double the memory,you simply piggy backed another memory chip on top of the existing one,and you cut off one lead of the piggy back chip.

The Trash 80 did have some advances ahead of it's time.

It had a 16 bit computer,16 K of memory, and voice synthesizer module,and several

other good modules.

The weak link was saving work to a tape recorder;And one key that would erase everything you had programmed up to that point.

One typo,and you had to start all over again.

It was a stern teacher to be very precise with the keyboard.

Not many people understand how much programming went into making an icon on

screen; And making it move was another tedious matter.

Modern computers are truly amazing if you understand what goes on internally.

When I worked at the North Platte Nebraska Radio Shack, (1978-1979)

I sold the first TR-80, but then again....sold it two more times because it kept getting returned! The teachers buying them (it) were not satisfied with the minimal programing.

Much later. i started learning about computers, At the time, I was a bad (poor knowledge) salesman at the time!! We had the TRS in the box, but pretty ill-equipped to sell it.

Why are #2 and #3 off topic?.

My first PC was a SuperBrain - with 2 x 5" floppy drives - bought in 1980 to help run my business - because it came with 'business software' (whatever that was?) - but was essential to use it.

Bit used mainly for letter writing - printed on an early IBM adapted Golfball typewriter - then later on a dot-matrix.

I abandoned the accounts accounts because I could not make sense of the instructions (...has nothing has changed in 40 years here! ...is it me or them?) - made harder because my 'Accountants' refused to accept 'disc based computer accounts'.

I found out I was not able to understand programming enough to be competent at it, when it took over an hour to write a machine code programme to make the 'X' key 'bleep' when pressed...it was only about 7 lines of code, and that was under supervision of the teacher at a special evening class on computing.

I gave up...!..and still struggle to this day!