- Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution
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David and Theresa Welsh wrote some of the first great software for the TRS-80, and knew a lot of the other people who were also writing great software. In Priming the Pump, they talk about the history of personal computers and the first non-kit mass-market personal computer, the TRS-80 Model I. - Radio Shack advertises the Color Computer vs. the Model III
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This Radio Shack ad, from the January 1981 creative computing is a good example of their strange ideas about what would sell.
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- Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution• (paperback)
- I’m only twenty-five pages into this book, and I’m already hooked. This is a great book about the early days of the microcomputer industry, the days when the TRS-80 was the only fully off-the-shelf non-kit computer, when Wayne Green was one of the biggest magazine publishers in the United States, and when having a computer meant having friends over to play around at programming. (David Welsh and Theresa Welsh)
