On 02-09-20, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Josh Allen-Clark:

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My first real exposure to computers was my favorite teacher bringing his
TRS-80 Model III with dual floppy to school. He had written a math program
in BASIC to show some stuff to the class, but then let me hang out and 
pour
through the disks and disks of stuff! That's where I heard about Scott
Adams and the text adventures!!!
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My uncle swiped my Trash-80 M3 from the dumpster of the high school where 
he worked at the time, which I attended around 10 years later.  My senior 
year, I took a class they called Tech Group.   We basically were the 
unofficial IT department of the high school under the tutelage of the 
district's technology coordinator.   One of our first tasks was to clean 
out and organize a storage area for us to use.   Buried wayyyyyy in the 
back was one last Trash-80 that somehow missed the dumpster all of those 
years ago.  My classmates had never seen one, but I instantly was like "I 
had one of these when I was a kid!".  I can't remember now if there were 
any disks with it... I do remember I booted it up and threw together a 
quick little program in BASIC to demo some things that I remembered.  I 
asked if I could take it home but was told I couldn't because it was still 
"district property" and I'm sure it ended up in eWaste somewhere... what a 
shame.

-Josh


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