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May 7, 2004 9:20 AM

Hey, Hey, 16K! What does that get you today? Perhaps the best bit of nerd nostalgia since the NESBuckle? Catchy song, dodgy animation, and the disembodied floating head of Clive Sinclair... what more could you ask for? Other than your old C64 back... [via AccordionGuy]
posted by krunk (8 comments total)

Bah! I've said before and I'll say it again - TRS-80 represent, represent! We didn't even have no damn 16k until 'extended' came out. While you C64 wussies were reveling in your bloated, decadent 16K, we were doing amazing stuff in 4K! Like, uh, playing "guess the number" and making the screen blink magenta.

(actually I liked the post, I just get to play the opressed minority card so rarely that I have to kinda go for it when I do.)
posted by freebird at 9:38 AM on May 7, 2004

Making the screen blink magenta?!?!?! Colour screens - you were lucky!
posted by Pericles at 9:47 AM on May 7, 2004

Screens? You decadent whippersnappers!!!
posted by signal at 9:52 AM on May 7, 2004

Future pre-historians will look back and see the TRS-80 and the Apollo missions as the pinnacle achievements of Western Technological Society. Sure, we've gone further since, but these are mere incremental improvements, not the Glorious Visionary Leap Forward the TRS-80 represents. From here on out it's just a slow descent into Dalek-hood.
posted by freebird at 9:54 AM on May 7, 2004

we were doing amazing stuff in 4K!

No reminiscence of the TRS-80 is complete without mentioning
Dancing Demon .

From here on out it's just a slow descent into Dalek-hood.

Any delay will result in death.
posted by Smart Dalek at 10:12 AM on May 7, 2004

Oh boy, does that make me feel old. *Sigh*
posted by NewBornHippy at 10:52 AM on May 7, 2004

ah yes , dear old speccy ............booooooooooooo beep !!!!!
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:26 PM on May 7, 2004

Miner Willy!
posted by Jimbob at 4:07 PM on May 7, 2004