On Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:13:54 -0500
Dennis Lee Bieber  wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 07:05:45 +0000, David Taylor
>  declaimed the following:
>
> >The new Raspberry Pi 400 sounds ideal for you.  I wouldn't bother with a
> >direct LAN connection - just use Wi-Fi.
> >
> >   https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400/?resellerType=home
> >
>
>   The return of the TRS-80 Model 1 

 It's a fraction of the weight with a million times the memory, tens
of thousands of times the processing power and millions of times the I/O
speed and far cheaper (IIRC they were £400 at first release) ... but yeah
that was my first thought too.

 Not bad progress for a bit over four decades.

 I worked in Tandy Cambridge at the time the TRS-80 came out in the
UK and knew BASIC so I got to program the demo one a month before they went
on sale. "Make it do something eye catching" - that set an early record for
vague requirements that has never been beaten in a long career of
programming.

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