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   -=> Ed Vance wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
      
    EV> Howdy Dave,   
    EV> A friend I met at Church got a TRS-80 Model 1.   
    EV> Earlier he played with an 1802 ELF (believe that's the name).   
    EV> When the COMMODORE C=64 came out, he bought one.   
      
   The TRS-80 was my first "store bought" computer. It surely was a leap up   
   from the SWTP kit I bought from the back pages of Mechanix Illustrated.   
   That arrived as a circuit board and loose parts in a plastic baggie. The   
   assembly instructions were mimeographed on a single sheet of rough paper.   
   No KBD and certainly no storage. When it powered down there went what   
   had been so laboriously entered via the DIP switches.   
      
    EV> One day he told me it wasn't much fun typing BASIC Code in, running it   
    EV> and when he finished with that PRG he would type NEW and all the time   
    EV> and energy it took to type that PRG in was gone as he typed in some   
    EV> other code he wanted to try out.   
      
   When Radio Shack introduced the TRS-80 there was a substantial discount    
   offered to Tandy stockholders. So, off I went to Shearson-Lehman to buy   
   10 shares. I saved the price of those shares with the discount. They    
   never paid a dividend but the company would split the stock when its    
   price hit a certain point. And when Tandy startede a new company I got   
   some shares in that. By the time I sold out I had over 200 shares of    
   Tandy and holdings in two start-ups. Part of that money bought my    
   first Amiga 2000.   
      
    EV> I told him about the circuit I saw in Popular Electronics that used a   
    EV> 7414 IC, in between a Cassette Recorder and the C=64's Cassette Port to   
    EV> Save his Code, and to CLoad it back into his PC when he wished to use   
    EV> that program again. That Circuit worked very well for him...UNTIL I got   
    EV> my own C=64, VIC Modem 300 and 1541Floppy Disk Drive.   
    EV> The Modem had a program on a cassette tape and I wanted to put that   
    EV> program on a Disk.   
    EV> I asked him to bring the Circuit he built and his cassette recorder to   
    EV> my home so I could Load the program from the tape to Save it on a   
    EV> floppy disk (I bought a 2-pack of SSSD 5-1/4" disks for $2.00 when I   
    EV> got the Disk Drive at K-Mart). When my friend saw how quickly the File   
       
   I bought my C=64 after seeing a friend's VIC-20 with colour display. WOW!   
   And the 1541 drive was only U$395.00. Later I picked up a Commodore PET   
   8032 with dual floppies and a printer - that looked like it might have   
   been the model for the H.A.L. computers from 2001 A Space Odyssey.   
       
    EV> was Saved on the disk, compared to the much longer time it took to Load   
    EV> it to my COMMODORE 64, his jaw dropped and he bought a disk drive the   
    EV> next day. BTW, He let me play with his 1802 ELF board some time later   
    EV> to type in the Star Trek program on the HEX Keypad it had.   
    EV> Good Days back then.   
      
   The best thing about the good old days is that they're gone.  Bv)=   
      
   ... MS-DOS=suit & tie, Macintosh=cool shades, Amiga=high heels & leather   
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