I think I still have a Vic 20 in my basement. The power brick died and I've never bothered fixing it.
I should do something with it. I even have two TRS-80 (models II and III) computers down there. I sometimes boot one of 'em and play Zork, but I haven't had time to do that in years.
to pull out the vic20. The trash80 is a neat machine, has the best version of zork in my opinion as well. Also
Damned right, the trash 80 (you're probably pretty old if you know that name) has the best version of Zork.
I used to dial in to the university with my TRS-80. I still have the acoustic coupler (cradle MODEM) for it. Alas, I only have the one that came from RadioShack. It sucked and I spent an ungodly amount of money to buy one from Hayes (? it was a long time ago) but that's long since gone missing.
I have a thing for acoustic coupler modems at 300 baud. My first experience with the thrash80 was a classroom with on of Was pretty amazing at the time.
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