I still remember clearly sitting down to play with the TRS-80 at the local Radio Shack in the 1970s

Unlike anything I had ever experienced, it was life changing, I would bike to the store every day after school

Family couldn't afford the computer but I bought all the books and would read them at home over and over and gawk at all the accessories in the catalogs

Then family surprised me with it as a birthday present with all the relatives paying for it, pretty sure I was the only person in town with one, even the school didn't get one for years

Didn't have any way to save programs, not even the cassette recorder which was too expensive, had to memorize them and retype every time I turned it on