Manufacturer: Tandy/Radio Shack
Machine Type: Catalog Number: 28-260
Model Number: N/A
Serial Number: N/A
Current Status: Excellent condition. Complete and working.
Acquired: Sep 1999
Remarks:
Even though this isn't a computer most are used to, it's interesting nonetheless. This device consists of a TI CPU, a hexadecimal keypad, binary and hex LED readout, and a speaker and contains some built-in games. The included instruction manual explains how to connect all the wiring together and also teaches hex and binary mathematical computations and actually programming the trainer itself. The machine itself is in surprisingly good condition considering the age of it which probably dates it in the early 1980s. The box is complete but a little worn and has the purchase price of $2 scribbled on it. The introduction of the manual follows for your enjoyment:
INTRODUCTION
On the kitchen table, next to a stack of bills and a pot of coffee, sits a computer. A colorful pie chart divided into uneven sections of the household budget, covers the screen. The printer, alongside the computer, whirs away as your mother awaits the printout.
In the den, down the hall, your father is busily sending a memo via telephone on his portable briefcase-size computer.
And you are standing in the doorway of your bedroom, carrying your Microcomputer Trainer Kit, and trying to decide where would best the best spot for it. Appropriately you set it on your desk next to a stack of Buck Rogers comic books and a pile of video arcade machine tokens.
Yours is the typical Computer Age household. People all over the world are using home computers to 1) aid them in business matters, 2) organize the home, and 3) provide an enjoyable diversion. And everyone in the family can get involved.
So now it's your turn. You have your Microcomputer Kit and you're ready to tell it to do something. (Remember a computer doesn't think; it only does what you program it to do.)
But first let's get to know your Computer.
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