>Making the TRS-80 your sole computer will prevent you from using the modern internet, installing security updates, and enjoying everyday software. Please consider purchasing a modern PC with Windows 11 or a Linux distribution.oh no someone from moscow just put a RAT on my 4k of memory and now my life is ruined, i should've used norton on an hp pavilion! and i can't even connect with my ex-wife on facebook to drunkenly argue every night! LOL
kita....
I think the point is that using an ancient home computer like that will exclude you from any societal reason people use computers, communication, information, entertainment, personal gain, enrichment, nothing like that will ever happen when you're limited to software written back in 1982
>>109606202>In 2014, Martin said in a BBC interview that he writes using WordStar editor software, on an MS-DOS computer, because he dislikes having his work spell-checked and to avoid internet distractions. He uses a separate computer for common internet tasks.>George R. R. Martin’s net worth in 2026 is estimated at $120 million.Want to move your goal post and continue this conversation?
>>109606634Writing on that MS-DOS computer doesn't seem to be working out too well for him, given that his last ASoIaF book came out in the early paleolithic or something. Not very productive.
>>109606707Your last published book on the other hand came out, oh wait ...
>>109606720I'm not a writer, so I'm not in the business of publishing books ;)
>>109606634>He uses a separate computer for common internet tasks.>Making the TRS-80 your sole computerSo much rather than being "moved", the goal posts seem to have stayed in the exact same place.
>>109606634Writing is an extremely antisocial activity.
>>109606094I don't know what a TRS-80 is. Which means I'm not a goy.
>>109609121it's a line of old computers, kiddo
I was able to access the internet in the mid 1980s with a TRS-80 Color Computer via dial-in to UNIX System V box at the local Unisys office. There's always a way.
>>109609192I mean yeah you can hook a Raspberry pi up to the serial port and have almost exactly the same setup. And if you look closely at how people used these that's pretty much the extent of 8-bit networking: Video terminal emulation over a modem connected to an actual computer running something like Unix or VMS.
