So I've been working on this for quite some time now. I setup a website with the progress of it all. I never really wanted to show anyone, but I figured, what the hell, why not?!

Don't make fun of me please.

http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/TRONcostume/

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I think Jay did a fine job . . . for more about his life . . . if you call that living . . .

http://www.conmicro.cx/

Oh man...what a wonderful life.... ::sob::

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That's actually pretty gross. If I saw him in that constume coming my way I'd be running the other way.

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Nice cameltoe.

Trivia moment: What's the origin of the word, "Tron"?

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Isn't it from Nucleus or from the bible about noninventive personality?

Thanks google

The student who researched the word electricity traced the word back to its 1646 meaning, “attract by friction.” She learned that the term's “family tree” has two major branches; elek, meaning “friction, heat” and tron, meaning “water” and “diffusion.” The biopoem used these two parts for the first name and last name.

Oh thats the easy answer.

Ted, I didn't know that.

I remembered it as the command to initiate the trace debugger from TRS-DOS. All these years I thought that's where the movie name came from!

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You can always count on the nerds to make my simple funny thread a complicated one lol

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Its like this, Doc: TRON was the first great nerd movie. Mention of it and displaying the nerd-in-chief costume was just too great a temptation.

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It's Jabba the Gut.

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I really liked TRS-80 until I got a...what was it Heath(?) with CP/M 56K and a fast Z-80 running like, 6 MHZ, maybe? Programmed in Assembly. I can still remember some of the instruction set!

Whoa, I say. Then I got a good job, made a lot of money and bought an Apple II+ with eight COLORS and 64K RAM and UCSD Pascal. Du-u-u-ude!

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Yikes, old owners of "Trash-80s" from "Chicken Shack" LOL! I thought they were all buried with their TRS-DOS disks and ribbon cable for the external drives and dot matrix printers.

For some "revisionist" computer history, try www.folklore.org for the Mac perspective.