When I would fire up my KIM-1, the TV would turn to snow.
There was a toy called the "Big Trak", a programmable ATV toy. If you ran that underneath the desk with a TRS-80 on it, it would crash.
The TRS-80 Model 1 was notorious for this, as you connected the computer to the expansion interface with a bare, 40(? ish?) pin ribbon connector. It was a beautiful broadcast antenna for computer signals.
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Anecdotes from the age.
When I would fire up my KIM-1, the TV would turn to snow.
There was a toy called the "Big Trak", a programmable ATV toy. If you ran that underneath the desk with a TRS-80 on it, it would crash.
The TRS-80 Model 1 was notorious for this, as you connected the computer to the expansion interface with a bare, 40(? ish?) pin ribbon connector. It was a beautiful broadcast antenna for computer signals.
The FCC was an impetus for the Model 3.