(July 13, 2015 at 11:54 pm)bennyboy Wrote: TRS-80: Ah, Radio Shack, how did you drop the ball?
I had a CoCo3 with 512k ram, and I could actually studio-edit short sound clips. My friends didn't believe me, because their Commodore 64s had. . . well.
I don't know what you mean, "drop the ball" do you mean why did I stop writing code? If that is the question, the answer is I needed to work and pay bills and found out that smoking weed is more fun than writing code. I also felt limited by BASIC and didn't know how to proceed to learning a new language. I did some VB at my job because it was similar to the scripting language used for the OCMM we used so I used that knowledge to springboard my programming skills on the Mitutoyo OCMM.
I remember the horror of rewinding and fast forwarding tapes to find the start point of a program, then pushing play and waiting for the program to play into the computer. My dad had a bunch of tapes with programs on them and little numbers indicating where to start playing the tape. What a pain in the ass; floppys were much better.