Picture Post: Ideal and Reality
Feb. 10th, 2016 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerThe difficulties I had uploading pictures to my Photobucket account cleared up one day, and I stored the images I'd thought about building an experimental post around, but by that point I might have been thinking of "saving them for later." A post on another subject has been going pretty slowly, though, so the time to use the pictures seems now. So as to not to place a big footprint on the friends lists of others, I'm putting the pictures behind a cut.
TRS-80 computing in 1980: the ideal
TRS-80 computing in 1980: the reality
The May cover actually features the author of a notable book on the TRS-80 disk system (which pushed an alternative DOS than the one you got from Radio Shack), so it's not necessarily a "typical user." It's not just the person in the image, but also the cluttered desk, that tickles my fancy anyway.
TRS-80 computing in 1980: the ideal
TRS-80 computing in 1980: the reality
The May cover actually features the author of a notable book on the TRS-80 disk system (which pushed an alternative DOS than the one you got from Radio Shack), so it's not necessarily a "typical user." It's not just the person in the image, but also the cluttered desk, that tickles my fancy anyway.