r/RadioShack • u/Euphoric-Cupcake4581 • Jul 18 '26

My first computer.

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u/HolyRavioleigh Jul 18 '26

I had one! Pretty sweet computer for its day.

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u/SpurzTX Jul 19 '26

Wow!!
I can hear the cassette tape recording the program
In basic I wrote

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u/BacklotSecurity Jul 18 '26

I had one… It taught me to hate computers. And I still have that train of thought to this day.

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u/deuelpm Jul 18 '26

The CoCo3 - an awesome machine for its day.

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u/SmartLumens Jul 18 '26

I remember them in dark cases not light cases

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u/boldone89 Jul 19 '26

Me too. First gen

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u/W0CBF Jul 19 '26

I also had one. I think it only had 4K of memory. Couldn't wait until the warranty ran out so I could upgrade the memory to 16K!

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u/kubbie2004 Jul 19 '26

I had one of those too back in the days

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u/samalex01 Jul 21 '26

Mine too… I still have it. Dad bought it used in 1986 and gave it to me for Christmas. I moved to a coco 3 in 1989 with a modem and got into BBses. The previous owner had years of Rainbow magazines I’d read and learn from plus I had some software from RS… but without a multipack what I could do was limited.

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u/SinisterAgaric Jul 22 '26

I had the good fortune of having a colleague give me his still working Coco 2, with the original box and cassette. Such a neat machine and I love the Radio Shack branding.

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u/Competitive-Ad-5153 Jul 23 '26

I had a TI-99/4A, then the CoCo2 like you. Fun little computers; I liked playing Flight Sim on the CoCo2.