"Chuck" question

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