Subj : Re: i have a radio
To   : Ed Vance
From : jimmylogan
Date : Fri May 09 2025 08:20 am

-=> Ed Vance wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 EV> Rereading this post reminded me of something

 EV> I had been reading Popular Electronics & Radio Electronics magazines to
 EV> learn about computing.
 EV> When at work I had a broadcast radio with AM, FM, VHF bands on it.
 EV> I would listen to the 2M Repeater freqs. to know what was going on in
 EV> my area. I heard someone asking a guy who worked with mainframes how to
 EV> do something on the TRS-80 Model 1 he had.
 EV> While listening to their QSO I realized that I understood the
 EV> explanation about how to do what was asked about. That got me thinking
 EV> about getting a computer to play with.
 EV> The QSO happened back in the 1970's when Radio Shack began selling home
 EV> computers.

Wow! Nice! :-)

 EV> In another post you wrote about seeing the first Floppy while at
 EV> school. A ham friend I visited had a Apple II system w/ either one or
 EV> two FDD's. I noticed itoaded files quicker than what another friends
 EV> TRS-80 Model 1 did from  Cassette tape, so I decided whatever brand of
 EV> computer that I would buy I HAD TO HAVE A FLOPPY DRIVE with it.

 EV> The system I bought was a Commodore 64.

I finally got a floppy drive for my CoCo II. I can't remember for sure,
now, but it would load a different OS on the machine so it could talk
to it. :-) And of course no USB or anything of the sort, and I can't
remember if it 'plugged in' via the cartridge port or what. :-)

Lot of water under the bridge. :-)



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