Priming the Pump: TRS-80 slide show
David and Theresa Welsh•, authors of Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution•, have created a fascinating 40-slide slide show of “the first complete microcomputer”. It’s filled with ads from the era and magazine cover photos, as well as photos of people using the TRS-80 in its various incarnations.
Download it and take a look. It’s a lot of fun. If you enjoy the slide show, get their book, too. I enjoyed the hell out of it.. And “Happy Retro Computing!”
In response to Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution: 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.
- Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution•: David Welsh and Theresa Welsh (paperback)
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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.
- Priming the Pump: Slide Show: Theresa Welsh and David Welsh at Priming the Pump: How TRS-80 Enthusiasts Helped Spark the PC Revolution (PDF)
- “Illustrated Slide Show (40 colorful slides) on the TRS-80 era, incorporating material from Priming the Pump. Show it at your next meeting; enjoy it on your PC or iPad.”
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