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![]() ![]() If it sounds like I’m not speaking about our computer in glowing praise, well, that’s just the modern me showing my contempt for the thing. A later purchase was a 16-kilobyte memory cartridge that sold for \$49. I seem to remember we got it from Kmart, probably in late December 1982 as part of a post-holiday clearance sale. All it could do was run BASIC programs you typed in, and the only way to store these for later retrieval was to connect it to a cassette tape recorder’s microphone jack, stick in a blank cassette tape, type SAVE and press record on the cassette player, taking care to write down the number on the tape recorder’s counter so you could rewind it and LOAD the program back into the T/S-1000. You pushed on the keys and maybe it registered a keypress. There was no key travel it felt like pushing on a vinyl-covered wall. (No HDMI cables back then.) The ugly little flat keyboard didn’t just look ugly, it felt ugly: the T/S-1000 used a so-called membrane keyboard. The T/S-1000 was this ugly little flat computer with an ugly little flat keyboard and 2 kilobytes of RAM:įor a display, you had to connect it to a television’s antenna jack through a VHF switch, so that you didn’t have to unscrew the antenna leads every time you wanted to use the computer or go back to watching TV. This was one of several personal computers introduced in 1982, along with the Commodore 64. ![]() When I was in fourth grade, my father bought a Timex/Sinclair 1000. This article is available in PDF format for easy printing Science Fair 1983 ![]()
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