Uh, yeah bud. No one was playing Prince Of Persia on their TRS80. This guy was just typing a basic loop to impress his friends with his “programming skills”.
Jesus, I'm having flashbacks of my brother and I keying in code from magazines and none of us having a clue what it was doing. Some way to spend your time.
https://preview.redd.it/wv3igey8ukbd1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=63b9dddc467df2d98737daf16f740b897d37ad0a
Hi. My name is *Richie Sakai*. I'm an anesthesiologist. And I'd like to dedicate this next song to my wife Patti.
Sort of. Definitely not poor, but my friends who had them were like son of a college professor, that sort of thing. A bit of money and a family emphasis on education, mostly.
Not me in the picture, but …
Wealthy grandmother bought me a Model I level I for my birthday the year after I visited my draft-dodging cousin and was too enthusiastic about living off the land.
I ended up spending high school building expansion for it and starting a TRS-80-based game company (that made no money).
We had one when I was maybe 10. We were def not wealthy.
My sister and I played a lot of Zaxxon on that thing. Loaded off of a cassette drive. Sloooooow.
My dad bought a TRS-80 Model I as a family computer in the VERY early 80’s.
The first kid I knew to have his own computer was in the late 80’s: a geeky computer wiz with a surgeon father who bought him a NeXT.
Took a few more years for me to buy my own basic PC in college in the early 90’s.
According to the source of the image (the richardcclark Flickr account) the photo was taken in the Bradley Hall dorm at Chico State university in California.
As a kid, I found one in my attic in the early 90's. Learned to play around in basic and followed the book that came with it to program some basic games to play. Didn't have the tape drive, so anytime I wanted to play had to write the game logic again. Also didn't have the monitor they had, hooked directly to a television via RCA cables.
Can't say if it was typical but I had my sweet ass vic-20 connected to my 13 inch color TV in my room. Then a few years later , but still in the 80s I upgraded to a c64.
Commodore 64 was an extremely popular gaming platform in the 80's, many of my friends had one. There were a few competing brands that were popular as well but the Commodore computers were dominant, until Nintendo came along.
Nobody I knew had a computer in their bedroom. Maybe their dad brought one home from work. Maybe their family had one in the living room for everyone to share, if they were rich. That's it.
I had a used C64 which only cost $100 in my room. The one in the picture cost ten times as much but you didn't need to be rich to get a computer in the 80s.
It's a great picture, but this is not really what teenage rooms looked like in the 80s. Very few kids had computers in their rooms, and few would want one, especially the pre-Apple era depicted here.
No they didn't. This kid was RICH if he had a COMPUTER in his own room.
That's crazy sauce. We had ONE computer until I was old enough to get a job and buy my own.
Dude, **no, it didn’t.** This is straight untrue. In the 80’s, just 9% of homes had PC’s in them, and even less would have let their kid take the PC to his room.
And the dudes in this photo look like they’re in their 20’s!
This is what an 80’s teenage boy’s room looked like…
https://preview.redd.it/ni3l82elskbd1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a84b7d39dcd6a620025f57e6b0f880b0aa8033e
THIS...but missing a Kathy Ireland and a Countach poster on the wall. BTW - most of these posts are made by people that did not live in the period they claim to be posting about...which is why most of them are so far off the mark.
Most people didn't have computers in the 80s, in fact most households didn't start having computers until the early 2000s because they were unaffordable. As a wee toddler in the 80s, I remember Atari and Nintendo paired with old CRT TV's.
I had an Atari 800XL computer when I was a kid in the early 80's, but it wasn't mine. It was meant for the whole family, I was just the one that used the thing the most. It connected up to a regular TV. I also had the tape drive and a tape of Blue Max which was my favorite game.
We weren't rich at all. We were 100 percent middle class. The real middle class that used to exist.
My dad would splurge on electronics sometimes. We also were the first family in our area with a VCR.
I had a pioneer SX-40 with CS 405 speakers and a dubbing cassette tape-deck when I was 15 or 16 with money I bought with cutting lawns. I had no interest in a computer…….I’m sure my parents and sisters wish I had.
That tape drive gives me nightmares man. Turn the volume up so you can go in the living room and watch price is right while you are waiting for Zork or the track and field summer games to load
Only if their parents had good money. Even in the late 80s that would be a family room thing as the family would need to spend a good amount to just buy one of those things.
This is what teenagers' rooms in well-off families looked like. Most working people in the 1980s couldn't afford a state of the art computer like that one.
Definitely not typical. We had a Tandy 1000 with a 1200 baud modem because my Dad worked for the phone company and would have to work from home sometimes. He left his Asian friend at the office usually, though.
I don’t know anyone who had a computer in their bedroom. A couple friends had one and it was in their living room. Remember playing leisure suit Larry when his parents were in another room.
Psshhh, I wish. I was born in the late 80s and we didn't get a *family* computer until 00-01. It was a Gateway PC, and we only had one phone line so we got kicked off a lot.
I was a kid in the 80s and me and 4 of my friends had them. We weren't rich either. Dad worked in a steel mill. I checked the stats and surveys showed 10-15% of families had a pc in the 80s
This is more what my bedroom looked like in 1980s only missing an Osborn orange screen 8” floppy computer
https://preview.redd.it/9rmqc0pg2lbd1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71e727f3205d77009ff955f37fa418484bb8085a
Not my actual room but close. I slept on the floor under my gear.
I had a 4K TRS-80 in early 78, told my parents it was for school but I used it mostly to play Star Trek. Bought it with my own money so they didn't have a say about where I had it set up. Performed the 12K expansion later by myself, not as difficult as the Radio Shack 'technicians' indicated it was.
That guy actually lived in the closet, there is a secret tunnel that leads to his underground lab….have you all never seen Real Genius? We all had laundry chutes in the closets too.
No. They did not. If you had a TRS-80 in your house, your family had ample disposable income. I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood (graduated high school in 1984), and only knew of two families who had personal computers in their homes, before 1983.
In 1981, when I was a Freshman, our mathematics department’s “Computer Lab” consisted of two base model TRS-80s in a repurposed “storeroom” that was literally a big closet.
The only teens that had a computer in their bedrooms were brainiacs , rich kids & Mathew Broderick in War games. Most of us were lucky to have a Rush & Iron Maiden poster & a stereo.
Everyone says you had to be rich. Not true. You just had to have the want. My family wasn’t rich by any means. Purely middle class. I worked all summer detasseling corn, loading tomatoes, cucumbers and deroguing to buy my C64, floppy drive and matching monitor.
I spent the winter typing in code for games from issues of Compute! Magazine I was saving. Then it was sharing hacked games with my friends in our model rocketry club. 
Yeah, I remember those days. Every teenage boy had a mustachioed Asian man in the closet
Correction a mustachioed 12 year old best friend who looked 43…and a copy of prince of Persia
That 12 yo Asian mustachioed guy was everybody’s friend… he could buy beer😂
You’re thinking of the 90’s that game didn’t come out until the last couple of months of ‘89
Or Below the Root
Uh, yeah bud. No one was playing Prince Of Persia on their TRS80. This guy was just typing a basic loop to impress his friends with his “programming skills”.
Model one. 4KB memory (upgraded).
Jesus, I'm having flashbacks of my brother and I keying in code from magazines and none of us having a clue what it was doing. Some way to spend your time.
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https://preview.redd.it/wv3igey8ukbd1.png?width=250&format=png&auto=webp&s=63b9dddc467df2d98737daf16f740b897d37ad0a Hi. My name is *Richie Sakai*. I'm an anesthesiologist. And I'd like to dedicate this next song to my wife Patti.
FUGU!!!
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I remember mine like it was yesterday. Miss you Kai Chow. Never would have got through algebra 1 without you.
Wait, we didn't all have this? 
No, at our place they were under the bed ..
Oh, so you had to deal with this thing? 
We take the shit, we break the shit, then we put the shit back.
CATO
Not now Cato!
That's Bruse Li.
No, that’s his adopted dad
Secret Asian Man
Tech support
Beat me to it!
Whatever floats your boat man
I was going to write the same thing and yet here it is at the top. Lmao.
What are ipoh talking about? That's Charles Bronson when he was still Little Charlie.
LMAO!!! Take this upvote!
He is the go-to guy for liquor store runs.
More likely than having a CPU
funniest thing I've heard in awhile. thanks for the belly laugh
this looks like the inspiration for Napoleon Dynamite and Pedro
lol brilliant
a TRS-80 in your teenage room?! Wealthy parents?
Sort of. Definitely not poor, but my friends who had them were like son of a college professor, that sort of thing. A bit of money and a family emphasis on education, mostly.
We had one at my high school. ONE. You had to reserve time, but nobody did lol.
That magical “upper middle class” that used to exist.
Not me in the picture, but … Wealthy grandmother bought me a Model I level I for my birthday the year after I visited my draft-dodging cousin and was too enthusiastic about living off the land. I ended up spending high school building expansion for it and starting a TRS-80-based game company (that made no money).
Trash 80, what made Radio Shack stick around
Trash 80's weren't exactly computers only the Waltons could afford.
Back when radio shack had all the electronics you would ever need.
I had the TRS-80 Color computer with the shitty chicklet keyboard. But let's talk about the height of the Asian man's hair helmet.
We had one when I was maybe 10. We were def not wealthy. My sister and I played a lot of Zaxxon on that thing. Loaded off of a cassette drive. Sloooooow.
Considering it was released in 1977, and the pic claims to be from the 1980's, I see this as a realistic possible hand-me-down.
Realistic… I see what you did there.
My dad bought a TRS-80 Model I as a family computer in the VERY early 80’s. The first kid I knew to have his own computer was in the late 80’s: a geeky computer wiz with a surgeon father who bought him a NeXT. Took a few more years for me to buy my own basic PC in college in the early 90’s.
I had to go to Radio Shack and use theirs, they never minded as long as I got off when they had to demo it. Those Model 3's were the shit.
I can’t see anything but the size of the person standing head. I really don’t think Too many kids had computers in their room in the 80’s by the way.
Yeah definitely not anywhere near typical
We had that setup on the side of the living room. Also, usually the monitor was on when typing things. We had no large-headed men in closets.
According to the source of the image (the richardcclark Flickr account) the photo was taken in the Bradley Hall dorm at Chico State university in California.
Our Commodore 64 was on a desk in the family room. However, my best friend’s TI 99 was in his room.
Load "\*",8,1 Can't remember what I had for breakfast but I can still rock the BASIC
That's a Radio Shack TRS-80 with the tapedrive, was $599 from 1977-1981, about $2-3k in today's money.
Dad bought a new one in ‘83 with the 64k tape, was $1,100.
As a kid, I found one in my attic in the early 90's. Learned to play around in basic and followed the book that came with it to program some basic games to play. Didn't have the tape drive, so anytime I wanted to play had to write the game logic again. Also didn't have the monitor they had, hooked directly to a television via RCA cables.
Yeah, does he have a secret compartment under his hair or something?
Yup, No computers in my house until the '90s.
Our family computer was in the basement with the Nintendo. I didn't have a tv in my room, and didn't get a telephone in my room until I was 16 or 17.
I was gonna say, if you were spoiled that’s what your room looked like
Yeah seriously. OP being oblivious.
Most of my friends and I had C64s in our bedrooms in the 80s.
>really don’t think Too many kids had computers in their room in the 80’s by the way. By 1988 lots of kids had an Amiga or a C64 in their rooms.
Had a ZX Spectrum 48k (count 'em!) in my shared room.
Can't say if it was typical but I had my sweet ass vic-20 connected to my 13 inch color TV in my room. Then a few years later , but still in the 80s I upgraded to a c64.
Commodore 64 was an extremely popular gaming platform in the 80's, many of my friends had one. There were a few competing brands that were popular as well but the Commodore computers were dominant, until Nintendo came along.
We were pretty broke and I still had a Commodore 64. Gotta save up months for that thing.
Rich kids
Vote for Pedro
Haha I was just thinking they look like Napoleon and Pedro!
We have Napoleon Dynamite at home….
Napoleon Dynamite at home:
Maybe if you were rich.
Nobody I knew had a computer in their bedroom. Maybe their dad brought one home from work. Maybe their family had one in the living room for everyone to share, if they were rich. That's it.
We didn’t get our first computer until mid 90s. Even then it was the den/living room.
I had a used C64 which only cost $100 in my room. The one in the picture cost ten times as much but you didn't need to be rich to get a computer in the 80s.
Yeah that was at least $2 grand in 80’s dollars.
It's a great picture, but this is not really what teenage rooms looked like in the 80s. Very few kids had computers in their rooms, and few would want one, especially the pre-Apple era depicted here.
Hey now, VIC-20!
Apple II was same era as TRS-80. It was a lot more expensive to start with.
They look young but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a dorm and some young college guys.
All I see is “Ben Fong-Torres from Rolling Stone Magazine”!
That dude just hacked into NORAD.
He's the OG Santa tracker.
It was definitely an improvement when we got doors for our closets instead of having to hire a guy to stand there all day.
I was a teen in the 80s. Not many people had a computer, especially in their room. This guy's family is well off.It is not the norm.
No, I wasn’t rich in the 80’s. Or any time before or since, now that I think about it.
Not even close
In the 80’s did the computer come with an Asian kid for tech support??
An extremely wealthy teenager's room.
No they didn't. This kid was RICH if he had a COMPUTER in his own room. That's crazy sauce. We had ONE computer until I was old enough to get a job and buy my own.
Not typical at all. Very few people had a computer in their bedroom as a teenager. Most houses didn't even have computers at that point.
We’ve found the fathers of Pedro, Napolean, and Kip.
no, most teenagers did not have a computer in the 80s or clean white walls. you gotta paper those walls with posters and mementos
Only nerds had computers in the 80s. But seriously majority of people in 80s did not have computers of any kind.
Dude, **no, it didn’t.** This is straight untrue. In the 80’s, just 9% of homes had PC’s in them, and even less would have let their kid take the PC to his room. And the dudes in this photo look like they’re in their 20’s! This is what an 80’s teenage boy’s room looked like… https://preview.redd.it/ni3l82elskbd1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a84b7d39dcd6a620025f57e6b0f880b0aa8033e
💯
THIS...but missing a Kathy Ireland and a Countach poster on the wall. BTW - most of these posts are made by people that did not live in the period they claim to be posting about...which is why most of them are so far off the mark.
Typical in the 80s? What you smoking? I had 10 of these in my room.
Most people didn't have computers in the 80s, in fact most households didn't start having computers until the early 2000s because they were unaffordable. As a wee toddler in the 80s, I remember Atari and Nintendo paired with old CRT TV's.
I had an Atari 800XL computer when I was a kid in the early 80's, but it wasn't mine. It was meant for the whole family, I was just the one that used the thing the most. It connected up to a regular TV. I also had the tape drive and a tape of Blue Max which was my favorite game. We weren't rich at all. We were 100 percent middle class. The real middle class that used to exist. My dad would splurge on electronics sometimes. We also were the first family in our area with a VCR.
Maybe if you were rich lol
Confirmed the mine looked the same. Only it was with an Apple 2e PC
Why did everyone have those uncomfortable ‘computer desks’ ?
I had a pioneer SX-40 with CS 405 speakers and a dubbing cassette tape-deck when I was 15 or 16 with money I bought with cutting lawns. I had no interest in a computer…….I’m sure my parents and sisters wish I had.
This. A sweet stereo was the shit back then.
I can hear the modem dialing in to that one BBS that had that naked lady file you could down load to your dot matrix printer....
If they were rich enough
Nope. Lol. Almost nobody had a computer in the 1980's, a few more in the 1990's. They were pretty damn expensive, so only those with means.
If you were rich
Looks like a college dorm room. My room at home looked nothing like this.
Yep, it looks like a dorm fridge at the bottom.
I see Ponch and John, before they were LAPD.
Is that Napoleon Dynamite & Pedro?
It's more like a rich teenager in the 1980s
Did david lynch take the photo?
That tape drive gives me nightmares man. Turn the volume up so you can go in the living room and watch price is right while you are waiting for Zork or the track and field summer games to load
That is a Radio Shack TSR 80 I think. Bought one in late 1979. Used it at work.
TRS-80 Model I. I had one ... with dual disk drives!!!
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Disk drives? Mine had the damnable cassette tape system.
Rusty Venture and Mike Sorayama
There’s is a scary man in the closet
Only if their parents had good money. Even in the late 80s that would be a family room thing as the family would need to spend a good amount to just buy one of those things.
If you were rich
Rich teenagers.
The guy in pink looks like Edward Norton
A serial killer and a rich kid.
Vote for Pedro!
If you had money
This is what teenagers' rooms in well-off families looked like. Most working people in the 1980s couldn't afford a state of the art computer like that one.
A computer, electric guitar and amp and a dude with a mustache? This guy grew up with $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Everybody says you had to be rich to own a computer in the 80sand I had 2 of them when I was a kid in the 80s. I had a Tandy and an old Apple 2 in 87.
You were an early adopter my friend, or a nerd with some money.
Some teenagers used their computers to conjure hot English babes; those with a TRS-80 were able to summon this mustachioed weirdo.
No one had a computer in their bedroom. In fact most people didn't have a computer.
Ehh. Computers were crazy expensive then. Most teenagers didn’t have them.
I was there. No it wasn’t. At all.
Nope
The irony is that this was exact opposite of cool in the 1980s
I had a TI-99. Learned so much with that thing. And those look like the brown cut-off Corduroy's, which I had also.
Is that a TRaSh 80?
Trash 80, had one. Fun PC
Definitely not typical. We had a Tandy 1000 with a 1200 baud modem because my Dad worked for the phone company and would have to work from home sometimes. He left his Asian friend at the office usually, though.
Not mine. I had posters and flyers on the wall. My main piece of electronic gear was my stereo.
Pedro and Napoleon
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40-year-oldest 17 year old I've seen in a while
For who? Gazabilillionairs?
Why did teen guys all look forty?
And who's the guy in the wig?
I don’t know anyone who had a computer in their bedroom. A couple friends had one and it was in their living room. Remember playing leisure suit Larry when his parents were in another room.
"Shall we play a game?"
That room was on the Rich side of town. We just had Pong on an old Console TV
And the 90s... And even the 2000's Edit* in fact you saw way less of this in the 80's than you did in the following decades.
Psshhh, I wish. I was born in the late 80s and we didn't get a *family* computer until 00-01. It was a Gateway PC, and we only had one phone line so we got kicked off a lot.
I was a kid in the 80s and me and 4 of my friends had them. We weren't rich either. Dad worked in a steel mill. I checked the stats and surveys showed 10-15% of families had a pc in the 80s
Is that a Wang I see?
Dude in the background has to be a genius
Only the rich kids could have computers
Grew up in the eighties, and no. We weren't fancy enough to have a computer, and where are the walls covered in rock posters?
Looks like a discount Cyrus and Dennis or Terry. Now f**k off, I’ve got work to do.
My dad bought me a Tandy 1000 that I never used once .
No it’s not..
My room did not come with an Asian friend.
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Mine didn’t 🤷♀️
If you had money.
Is that Ben Fong Tores?
This is more what my bedroom looked like in 1980s only missing an Osborn orange screen 8” floppy computer https://preview.redd.it/9rmqc0pg2lbd1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=71e727f3205d77009ff955f37fa418484bb8085a Not my actual room but close. I slept on the floor under my gear.
That’s not Bruce
Napoleon and Pedro.
They had to have base Napoleon Dynamite off this picture
Trying to draw a pair of boobies using 18,000 lines of BASIC
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That is one large cranium. 😂
That guy on the left reminds me of Roger in costume
Only the top 1%, the rest of us had posters and a record player.
I'd bet it's running It's running Trek. That's what I did when dad bought his work PC home on weekends.
I was thinking "why is that asian kid wearing wig and fake moustache". Then I realized this photo is in 1980's so it's not wig and fake moustache. LOL
A computer in the 80s in your bedroom? I don't think so
I had a 4K TRS-80 in early 78, told my parents it was for school but I used it mostly to play Star Trek. Bought it with my own money so they didn't have a say about where I had it set up. Performed the 12K expansion later by myself, not as difficult as the Radio Shack 'technicians' indicated it was.
The inspiration for Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite
That guy actually lived in the closet, there is a secret tunnel that leads to his underground lab….have you all never seen Real Genius? We all had laundry chutes in the closets too.
I think that's a TRS-80 model I, which first became available in 1977, for $599.
Just chatting with hot babes all day… 
Bro is wearing a space invaders helmet.
That dude must have like an 8 inch forehead under that mop
All that’s missing is the tissue paper
Murderer in the closet and all
Hacking into the W.O.P.R.?
Every teen had a pedo PE teacher in the wardrobe ?
*If you were rich enough to afford a computer.
No. They did not. If you had a TRS-80 in your house, your family had ample disposable income. I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood (graduated high school in 1984), and only knew of two families who had personal computers in their homes, before 1983. In 1981, when I was a Freshman, our mathematics department’s “Computer Lab” consisted of two base model TRS-80s in a repurposed “storeroom” that was literally a big closet.
Napoleon and Pedro
“Picture of me(16) and the Filipino man that haunted my childhood home.”
The only teens that had a computer in their bedrooms were brainiacs , rich kids & Mathew Broderick in War games. Most of us were lucky to have a Rush & Iron Maiden poster & a stereo.
Everyone says you had to be rich. Not true. You just had to have the want. My family wasn’t rich by any means. Purely middle class. I worked all summer detasseling corn, loading tomatoes, cucumbers and deroguing to buy my C64, floppy drive and matching monitor. I spent the winter typing in code for games from issues of Compute! Magazine I was saving. Then it was sharing hacked games with my friends in our model rocketry club. 