Uncle Randy and the one hundred dollar computer · Proposed air date:
Looking back at the one-hundred-dollar computers of the early 1980s, Dr. Dave remembers debating Uncle Randy over the TI-99/4A and Commodore 64. He credits luck as well as judgment, then uses the tiny memory, built-in BASIC and television connection to show how dramatically personal computing changed.
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Proposed recording date: 2006-12-02. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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