"Chuck" question

A friend forwarded this message to me and I agreed to post it. Please note that she's an archivist and not a collector: "I tried posting this elsewhere but other than one reply that some schools have old computers around, nobody's come up with a good explanation. So I thought I'd try Archives List in the hopes that somebody who either attended Stanford University or works there might be able to say if the reference is some sort of in-joke. The show is Chuck on which premiered on NBC this week and the question is: Why would a character who's 27 years old say he'd developed a video game on a TRS80 when he attended Stanford? Assuming a normal progress through school, Chuck attended college between 1997 and 2002 or perhaps a few years earlier if he was a child prodigy (of which there is no evidence in the pilot.) Would he have been able to to find a Trash-80 there and use it to design a video game? TRS-80's were first manufactured before he was born and production ended by the time he entered kindergarten. Although the Model 100 laptop enjoyed some popularity - especially with reporters - until the 1990's, surviving TRS-80's were antiques by the time the character was in high school. I've checked various message boards, etc. but haven't found a mention of this - just lots of comparisons to Jake 2.0 and a fairly even mix of pans and praise for the show. Judy Turner Whitefish Bay, WI"