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I handled TVs at Sears in the early 90s. Just my experience but weight and reliability seem to be related with CRTs. We almost never saw Trinitrons and Mitsubishis come in for repair or replacement, both were comparable in weight. My parents had a NEC from the mid 80, they used it about 15 years then handed it down to my niece. It was pretty heavy too.
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In the early 80s in elementary school, my teacher(5th and 6th grade, had him both years) had a TRS-80. I think I recall him eventually getting floppies but most of the time he had the cassette drive. Anyway, not really the remarkable part. I assume you could buy programs already on cassettes but we(Yes, 5th and 6th graders) spent hours and hours inputting code(BASIC) from the computer magazines of the time. I remember a pong like game and a couple money programs, loan amortization type stuff. The money stuff we actually used in class to understand what home loans were and such but mostly we were slave labor. Happy to do it because computers. You can imagine the troubleshooting that required. I wish I would have used that as a jumping off point in computing but outside of owning a Commodore64, that kinda fell by the wayside for me until the mid 90s.
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