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   On 02-09-20, Jimmy Anderson wrote to Josh Allen-Clark:   
      
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   My first real exposure to computers was my favorite teacher bringing his   
   TRS-80 Model III with dual floppy to school. He had written a math program   
   in BASIC to show some stuff to the class, but then let me hang out and    
   pour   
   through the disks and disks of stuff! That's where I heard about Scott   
   Adams and the text adventures!!!   
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   My uncle swiped my Trash-80 M3 from the dumpster of the high school where    
   he worked at the time, which I attended around 10 years later.  My senior    
   year, I took a class they called Tech Group.   We basically were the    
   unofficial IT department of the high school under the tutelage of the    
   district's technology coordinator.   One of our first tasks was to clean    
   out and organize a storage area for us to use.   Buried wayyyyyy in the    
   back was one last Trash-80 that somehow missed the dumpster all of those    
   years ago.  My classmates had never seen one, but I instantly was like "I    
   had one of these when I was a kid!".  I can't remember now if there were    
   any disks with it... I do remember I booted it up and threw together a    
   quick little program in BASIC to demo some things that I remembered.  I    
   asked if I could take it home but was told I couldn't because it was still    
   "district property" and I'm sure it ended up in eWaste somewhere... what a    
   shame.   
      
   -Josh   
      
      
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