Yeah, a lot of people dissed Radio Shack “Trash-80s” back in the day, but they did build a pretty solid machine, or at least spec’ed one.
We had TRS-80's in our "computer lab" in 9th grade
They had a Star Trek game on the "network" where the object was to hunt down and destroy Klingons (Represented as a "K" on a grid).
Seeing as it had been written in BASIC, it was pretty simple to hack the source code, and modify it to suit my little bastard tastes.
I changed any mention of the word "Klingon" to "MUZZIE", and the K on the grid to an M, representing the Muslim enemy.
(The enemy had just completed construction of the Islamic Center of North America in my hometown of Plainfield, IN)
I had thought that the changes I had made to the program were only running on my machine, but it turned out that my modifications ended up being saved to the master tape drive, and everyone afterwards who tried to play Star Trek ended up playing Muzzie Hunt.
Lucky for me, it was the last week of school, and I did this in the pre-fascist early 1980's.
Had I been born 20 years later, I'd have been arrested and charged with a (insert whiney New York liberal voice) "hate crime for being intolerant of Muslims".
Cool thing was you could run for days off of four AA batteries. Try that these days. Of course it helped that everything happened in RAM, no moving parts.