I was as shocked as anyone to find this domain available. The Radio Shack TRS-80 was, in many ways, the reason that I've spent the last few years of my life in front of a computer (as opposed to doing something useful with my life). With it's clunky chiclet keyboard (I still hate these today), whopping 4K (that's 4096 bytes) of memory, and audio output cable to save files to a cassette player, the Color Computer was one of the first real home computers that wasn't a kit.

The Color Computer seems almost grotesquely simple to anyone who even has a smartphone. But even compared to it's more business-oriented counterparts, the Color Computer had one huge advantage -- you could sit at home and use it. It came with a fairly large manual that taught you how to program in BASIC, and while color palette was limited, it was a color palette, which few other computers at the time could boast. Add in the 16K ROM cartridges that were available with various software packages, and you had about as spiffy a machine as you could pack into 4K of memory.