Retsy Series 1 · Card 0229 · 80-TEC
Teach it your name. It'll never forget.
A keyboard-in-a-box home computer that plugged into the family TV and saved programs onto ordinary audio cassettes.
The story · 1983
The Homebrain 36K came with a manual full of programs you typed in yourself, line by line, for hours. One typo and the bouncing rocket game just printed SYNTAX TROUBLE. Loading from tape took eleven minutes of screeching, so kids learned patience, then learned to make their names scroll down the screen forever.
The 36K stood for kilobytes, though the ad agency insisted it stood for thirty-six thousand kinds of fun.
Six finishes
Homebrain 36K comes in six finishes: 100 Base, 50 Holo, 25 Laser and 10 Gold copies, plus one Super Laser and one Misprint that exist exactly once. Every copy is minted to the wallet that rips it, with its own serial number.
80-TEC
Homebrain 36K is one of 32 cards in the 80s Tech & Gadgets set. Here are the other 31.
