[derrikcurran]

I could have posted this comment verbatim! (Except mine was a TX.) I was poor growing up and couldn't afford a computer and it changed everything when I got the Tandy. My mother was a hairdresser. She got to talking to one of her clients about me and, long story short, her client gave me the Tandy along with a bunch of manuals and programming books. She also came to our apartment and got me started on it. Even showed me the internals. I owe a great deal to that woman!

[natebc]

Ditto but mine was a TL with TWO 1.44MB floppy drives that I later crammed a massive 10MB hard drive into and dangled a 300 baud external modem off of!

IIRC that thing was like $1500 in 1987 dollars. I have no idea at all how my parents could afford it but I'm sure glad they did. Every single dollar I've earned as an adult was because of that purchase.

[zaphar]

Ours was literally bought with tax return money. We could never have afforded it otherwise.