"Chuck" question

[Chuck Guzis]

Personally, while the chronology offered is full of beans--I saw the 
opening show in question (I thought it was terrible).  A younger co-
worker in the computer support department ("Nerd Herd") of a big-box 
store says "You wrote (fill-in-the-blank) for the TRS-80?".   Nope, 
not likely at all.

But it's a matter of cachet.  After all, a Mac and a PC are 
conceptually (at least in the popular sense) the same machines they 
were at their debut--seamlessly evolved to whatever it is we have 
now, but still a Mac and a PC.  "5150" or "Peanut" means nothing to 
the overwhelming bulk of the population.

The TRS-80, however, is a mastodon--extinct and therefore, unique.  
And common enough that some Gen-X-ers and Boomers and a few young 
folks may actually remember them.  Forget that time has been 
telescoped terribly.  An Amiga might have done just as well in the 
script as well as a C-64. 

After all, "Back to the Future" didn't use a Honda Civic, it used a 
DMC-12, right?  They're both roughly contemporaneous.  The De Lorean 
is exotic and extinct.

Cheers,
Chuck