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Quote cast with the first machine you wrote a line of code on

QC with the first machine you wrote a line of code on.

Art and code since 1994. https://linktr.ee/mariuswatz

"Getting Started with Color Basic" was also the first English book I ever read, age 11.

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That's a stock photo, sadly. I was thinking of picking one up from Ebay, but I don't need more objects to store.

Damn, I want my computer to look like this again!

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It's still around, at my dad's. But I haven't tried to turn it on. It hasn't been touched for near 30 years, but I did see someone with a running TRS-80 at a gamer con last year.

Fun fact: The UK Dragon microcomputer used the same BASIC, so I could copy code for the Dragon. 🫠

In the world of V20's. C64's and ZX Spectrums that machine was rarity and I never saw one in the wild. Do you still have it?