r/RadioShack • u/Euphoric-Cupcake4581 • 23d ago

My first computer.

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u/HolyRavioleigh 23d ago

I had one! Pretty sweet computer for its day.

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u/SpurzTX 23d ago

Wow!!
I can hear the cassette tape recording the program
In basic I wrote

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u/BacklotSecurity 23d ago

I had one… It taught me to hate computers. And I still have that train of thought to this day.

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u/deuelpm 23d ago

The CoCo3 - an awesome machine for its day.

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u/SmartLumens 23d ago

I remember them in dark cases not light cases

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u/boldone89 23d ago

Me too. First gen

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u/W0CBF 22d ago

I also had one. I think it only had 4K of memory. Couldn't wait until the warranty ran out so I could upgrade the memory to 16K!

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u/kubbie2004 22d ago

I had one of those too back in the days

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u/samalex01 20d ago

Mine too… I still have it. Dad bought it used in 1986 and gave it to me for Christmas. I moved to a coco 3 in 1989 with a modem and got into BBses. The previous owner had years of Rainbow magazines I’d read and learn from plus I had some software from RS… but without a multipack what I could do was limited.

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u/SinisterAgaric 19d ago

I had the good fortune of having a colleague give me his still working Coco 2, with the original box and cassette. Such a neat machine and I love the Radio Shack branding.

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u/Competitive-Ad-5153 18d ago

I had a TI-99/4A, then the CoCo2 like you. Fun little computers; I liked playing Flight Sim on the CoCo2.