My first portable computer, the TI-74
Still useable with only one line for a display
Although I got my first computer that I can call my own, the Atari 800 XL, at Christmas of 1984, it didn’t take long for me to want a portable computer. And that’s where the TI-74 Basicalc came in.
High School
It’s been a while now, so I don’t even remember how I got the TI-74 in the first place. I’m assuming I needed a scientific calculator for school, and it seemed like the coolest, calculator ever. Who couldn’t want a machine that had a full, basic interpreter, build in, along with a QWERTY keyboard!
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