Yup! Not sure why we had one but Dad bought one from RadioShack and was super proud of it
I used it for playing games like police quest and moonbugs because he knew a guy that could copy discs. We had an old word processor on there too. I want to say it was wordperfect but that's almost 35 years ago for me
I managed to get the one my parents had before it was delegated to the ol' junk pile. Still have it and a couple boxes of floppies, even let my kid play some reader rabbit on it.
Wow! I love the map idea. My brother and I played with our dad. I definitely learned some cuss words from him while playing that game. I also learned that the world is a dangerous place and I needed to be extra careful when engaging in risky activities like putting my foot in a pond, standing near a rock, and walking up the stairs.
Some of my first "rage quit" experiences were playing Othello against the computer in some pirated software we got from Radio Shack when we bought the Tandy. (It seems weird in retrospect that the Radio Shack guys were also slingin pirated software, but those were the days!)
Anyway, I got so mad at the computer that I took out the (actually floppy) disk and scratched a big "X" on the media in that oval opening.
It didn't work again. THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO F WITH ME!!!
We had/have the same model. It, along with the matching dot matrix printer, remains setup and in working order at my mom’s house. She still has the original packaging in the attic.
I had an Apple IIc I played Goonies a bunch on it and had a word processor. And a handle to carry the CPU. It was weird and I wish my parents had not tossed it out.
We had a Tandy in the 90s, and getting a computer at home was a BIG DEAL because we didn't have tons of money. I swear that the computer lasted forever! It reminds me of the OG Nokia phones- durable and built to withstand years of use. So happy to see the Tandy love here!
The Tandy 486 was my first computer. It ran on DOS. I played Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego CONSTANTLY on it. The printer was a dot matrix and I didn't know what a modem was yet. I think my parents paid like $4k or some insane amount for it from Radio Shack, which is nearly $10k in today's dollars! Imagine going to Best Buy and slapping down $10k for a middle-of-the-road HP desktop! Fucking wild!
We had a Tandy 1000 with a second disk drive. I used to play a lot of games like Frogger, Test Drive, Tapper, Remote Control, Wheel of Fortune and lots of others.
Tandy 1000RL. I have this ad for it framed in my home office since this machine holds a very special place in my heart. (Not an original I have had, I picked it up off eBay like 10 years ago. It’s a fun conversation piece, though).
Me! Had like 5 games for it too. My dad brought it home becasue someone was tossing it. I was about 8 and no one in my family was good with eletronics. I got it running and used it for a few years.
I got one from the neighbor who moved away from across the street from us. My stepdad hooked up the base the monitor and the keyboard… but we didn’t know how to turn it on. We looked and looked and looked. Come to find out you had to switch on the keyboard and monitor and the base all at once and we didnt know the keyboard had a switch too. I was 6 but this is how i remember this going, with this computer.
Me!! Lol! We had a Tandy 1000 back in the mid 80's. Lol! I remember learning basic DOS so I could play California Games and Duck Tales and Carmen San Diego on it. And we had dial up and AOL. It was sooooo slow!
I had one (my dad's old one) in high school in 1996/1997. I had the daisywheel printer too so I was able to use it for a word processor. It worked just fine for that, not much else.
I grew up poor af. The high school I went to didn't even have computers, we had typewriting class. I didn't use a computer until I was in college and I didn't own my own computer until I was 25
We had a Tandy 1000 HX for about two days before one of my dad's friends convinced him it was a piece of garbage and he should get a 286 AT clone (Tandon?) with a 20mb hard drive. I remember the Radio Shack guy NOT wanting to allow the return. I'm guessing those guys were on commission and this was an emotional loss for him.
Finally someone who mentions a Tandon. I don’t remember which one it was that had a manual that said “Your computer remembers everything — until you turn it off!”
I learned how to recover supposedly deleted data on a Tandy, though. My mom got a used one that was being sold cheap when a business was upgrading their equipment. The whole thing was supposed to be wiped but I recovered everything. I had customer lists, inventories, detailed records, financials, you name it. My mom was pissed because she thought they’d lied about the computer being cleared. They hadn’t lied. I just had figured out how to do the recovery. I was probably in 4th or 5th grade at the time. Computers and I understand each other.
My first computer was a Tandy 1000EX. One where the keyboard was built into the computer. One 5.25” disk drive on the side, and no HDD. Had to boot up DOS 2.11 on floppy, then swap out to any other application I wanted to use.
I remember my neighbor showing me that with the expansion port, I could upgrade the memory (I think to 512k), or put in a modem, but no room for both. I thought, “why would I ever need a modem?”, and opted for the memory bump.
I had a TRS-80 (aka trash-80) with the dual 8" floppy setup. To be fair it was a hand-me-down rescue from a local business and was not my primary computer at the time, but it was still fun to poke around on.
I had a trs80 color 2. I learned BASIC on it. Im currently working on a terminal emulator that i hope to turn into a platform similar to Pico8, but with native code execution and the ability to use any programming language to develop with it.
My older sister had one, the only thing I knew how to do on it was change the screen color and play Dungeons of Daggarath. She stayed up one night all night and coded it to play Buffalo Gals.
My buddy had one that was slightly newer than this. We played Kings Quest 2 on it and printed out incredibly shitty clip art pictures on a dot matrix printer.
We had an Apple IIe, but my elementary school had an entire computer lab full of Tandy TRs-80s. I’m assuming they must have gotten a donation or grant or something because one school year a room that had previously been empty was now the computer lab full of Tandys.
I remember that only a small number of machines had floppy drives and the rest loaded software remotely from those machines using early networking. It took some time so they’d load up all the machines before computer class started with whatever software we’d be using.
Funny how those companies that were selling these home computers liked to use a legacy TV star as spokesman.
Bill Bixby for Tandy Radio Shack
William Shatner for Commodore Vic20
Two Bills!
Shatner made sense due to Captain Kirk being a character living in a future with talking computers and space ships.
I guess Bixby's David Banner character being a scientist was why he was chosen as the spokesman here. "I've made so much progress in finding a cure on my Tandy!"
Trying to remember who else from classic TV had a similar role in selling computers at the time.
My parents thought it was a rip, so cut my teeth learning basic on the "superior" Vic20 and tape storage. Then thought I was in heaven upgrading to a 386 Packerd Hell with 16MB of Ram and 50MB HD running compression "doubling" topping out around 70. I think my first Ericcson cell phone had more capabilities.
No way we were rich like that lol I never had a computer at home (mom offered but I felt too bad getting an expensive gift like that when I could just use the lab at school). My parents still don't have a computer, Internet service or an online presence and they're doing just fine and can still find a way to get all their bills paid lol
Fun fact: I had a neighbor growing up who was big into computers and had a lot of spare parts in his house. I built my family’s first computer as a Tandy box. I installed windows 3.1 and it had a whopping 3 GB hard drive
That was my first computer, a hand me down from a lab at the local college. I must have been 10 years old sitting there with a giant BASIC code book programming my own games.
BlackieDad@reddit
Our first computer was a Tandy 1000. I bricked it by filling the hard drive with MIDI songs I made on the music composer program.
DifficultMinute@reddit
Our Tandy was stolen a few years ago from a storage shed.
I wrote so many songs on that thing, it would be awesome to go back and hear if any were actually good (they weren’t lmao)
JaneEyrewasHere@reddit
We had a Tandy 1000HX. I’m typing had as if it’s not in my parents basement somewhere.
Additional_Data_Need@reddit
First Sound Blaster on the block!
_gonesurfing_@reddit
Yours had a hard drive???
BlackieDad@reddit
This was like 30+ years ago, my memory is a bit fuzzy
torx822@reddit
Haha I remember that program. I think there was a painting program that came with it too.
DifficultMinute@reddit
It wasn’t that exact setup, but we had the Tandy 1000.
The Deskmate operating system seemed so ahead of its time.
Terriblarious@reddit
Yup! Not sure why we had one but Dad bought one from RadioShack and was super proud of it
I used it for playing games like police quest and moonbugs because he knew a guy that could copy discs. We had an old word processor on there too. I want to say it was wordperfect but that's almost 35 years ago for me
ASH_the_silent@reddit
I managed to get the one my parents had before it was delegated to the ol' junk pile. Still have it and a couple boxes of floppies, even let my kid play some reader rabbit on it.
_WeSellBlankets_@reddit
My grandparents had a tandy. Their brands were Volvo, Schwinn, Radio Shack, and Tandy.
cssdayman@reddit
Got my start on my dad’s TRS80 (Trash80).
imnotpaulyd_ipromise@reddit
I remember playing Kings Quest II on Tandy
bearlysane@reddit
We sat down and played KQI and II as a family. Hand-drawn paper map, and all that.
imnotpaulyd_ipromise@reddit
Wow! I love the map idea. My brother and I played with our dad. I definitely learned some cuss words from him while playing that game. I also learned that the world is a dangerous place and I needed to be extra careful when engaging in risky activities like putting my foot in a pond, standing near a rock, and walking up the stairs.
bearlysane@reddit
I mean, the rock I remember won’t kill you unless you push on it from the wrong place….
Stairs, otoh, nightmare fuel when all you have is arrow keys.
RunEatRalph@reddit
At my dad's expense, I learned what formatting a disk was.
_gonesurfing_@reddit
format a: “Are you sure you want to continue? Y/N”
all_no_pALL@reddit
“Hey, Miss Doesn’t Find Me Attractive Sexually Anymore. I just tripled my productivity”
Connect-Type493@reddit
Y-e-s!
sheeplewatcher@reddit
All this work is making me thirsty, where’s my Tab
ignatious-d@reddit
Happy Cake Day!!
all_no_pALL@reddit
Hey look at that! Thanks!0
ronin_cse@reddit
Y
taleofbenji@reddit
Some of my first "rage quit" experiences were playing Othello against the computer in some pirated software we got from Radio Shack when we bought the Tandy. (It seems weird in retrospect that the Radio Shack guys were also slingin pirated software, but those were the days!)
Anyway, I got so mad at the computer that I took out the (actually floppy) disk and scratched a big "X" on the media in that oval opening.
It didn't work again. THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO F WITH ME!!!
all_no_pALL@reddit
Fitting that Bill Bixby is the spokesperson here
No-Emu-8717@reddit
Why, wasnit 6 million dollars. I had a trs 80 at some point. But it was when i already had a ps2 model 30
all_no_pALL@reddit
I was saying fitting it was Bill Bixby (Bruce banner) because of the guy crashing out due to othello
eljeffrey1980@reddit
Same! Format drive c:? Sure!
woohhaa@reddit
Did that to a Walmart display computer or two. I was a delinquent.
cropguru357@reddit
That’s way too new.
ronin_cse@reddit
The older Tandys didn't have a c drive, all floppy
eljeffrey1980@reddit
color deskmate
eljeffrey1980@reddit
it was the rlx 1000 not the one in the ad
Freakin_A@reddit
At my parents expense, I figured out how to delete most of the applications in the OS
howAboutRecursion@reddit
And don’t hit the red power button without saving…..ruined one of my dad’s work assignments by saying “What does that button do?” After I pressed it 🤣
NegotiationThen5596@reddit
I’ve got the Eagle II GS
Ok_Rush_4972@reddit
I had one with a bot matrix printer we made banners for party like it was going out of style.
lordskulldragon@reddit
I had a Sensation...
onedrrboy@reddit
We had/have the same model. It, along with the matching dot matrix printer, remains setup and in working order at my mom’s house. She still has the original packaging in the attic.
BillCharming1905@reddit
Yes! That was my first comp. Had a 1X cd rom too
moles-on-parade@reddit
That speaker pedestal just uppercut my brain square in the nostalgia.
emarkd@reddit
Omg me too! I haven't thought about that thing in decades, but I had one of those sitting under the monitor of my Packard Bell.
01110101011011100110@reddit
Colour! Mine was just black and green. Tandy 1000.
F1ux_Capacitor@reddit
Loved my Sensation!
hoodncsu@reddit
First an HX, then a TX
JohnBrine@reddit
I had an Apple IIc I played Goonies a bunch on it and had a word processor. And a handle to carry the CPU. It was weird and I wish my parents had not tossed it out.
Designer-Amphibian29@reddit
We had a Tandy in the 90s, and getting a computer at home was a BIG DEAL because we didn't have tons of money. I swear that the computer lasted forever! It reminds me of the OG Nokia phones- durable and built to withstand years of use. So happy to see the Tandy love here!
Crans10@reddit
IBM PCjr then a Macintosh
Zip668@reddit
TRS-80 (Tandy Radio Shack) aka Trash-80 with a cassette tape drive.
TravelbugRunner@reddit
Is that Bill Bixby?
ExplanationShoddy233@reddit
Is that Wolverine selling me a Tandy?
meagainpansy@reddit
I had a Tandy 1000 sx. 16 color graphics and (some kinda better) sound card. It was pretty awesome.
WithoutCaution@reddit
The Tandy 486 was my first computer. It ran on DOS. I played Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego CONSTANTLY on it. The printer was a dot matrix and I didn't know what a modem was yet. I think my parents paid like $4k or some insane amount for it from Radio Shack, which is nearly $10k in today's dollars! Imagine going to Best Buy and slapping down $10k for a middle-of-the-road HP desktop! Fucking wild!
ilikeaffection@reddit
Yeah, the operating system is extra. What a time. Yes, we had one of these when I was a kid.
sixfourtykilo@reddit
Well TBF, pre-built PCs today include an OS (Windows, MacOS), but it's built into the price.
If you build a PC from scratch, you have to pick an OS and potentially pay for it.
Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit
Depends on who you buy from. Lots more makers will sell you a unit with linux or no OS these days.
fragdoll4u@reddit
Yes! Played Castle Wolfenstein a lot.
Wish_36@reddit
We got my aunts hand me down Packard Bell in the early 90s
generic__comments@reddit
Tandy? You wouldn't want to see me when I'm Tandy!!
FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit
We had an Apple IIGS and an NEC 386.
The Apple was dad's, the NEC was mom's.
Even in the 80s, the Apple/anything but Apple divide was there.
ammodramussavannarum@reddit
I had a few Tandy TRS-80’s, never a 1000.
Chawnci7@reddit
Bruce Banner selling PCs!
sophisticatedcorndog@reddit
13 Ghosts was the first electronic game I ever played.
stormquiver@reddit
great memories learning everything i could from my dad (he died of cancer over the weekend)
great times playing sierra games
oakleafwellness@reddit
I didn’t know Bill Bixby was a Tandy spokesman. Interesting.
Cross_22@reddit
He only sells the green monitor.
Horse_Dad@reddit
With extra gamma radiation.
Shawsome5150@reddit
You'd get sad Hulk music if you tried to walk away from the Circuit City without buying one.
hot_rod_kimble@reddit
Just buy the computer. You don't want to make him angry.
GuybrushBeeblebrox@reddit
You wouldn't like him when he's hangry
Stop_Already@reddit
Me.
We had a Tandy 1000 with a second disk drive. I used to play a lot of games like Frogger, Test Drive, Tapper, Remote Control, Wheel of Fortune and lots of others.
Young me thought it was badass. :)
asdfjkl826@reddit
Tandy 1000RL. I have this ad for it framed in my home office since this machine holds a very special place in my heart. (Not an original I have had, I picked it up off eBay like 10 years ago. It’s a fun conversation piece, though).
Dog_Baseball@reddit
We had the Tandy 1000
dubsdread@reddit
The Armitron was peak Tandy
Persis-@reddit
My dad sold them.
AllanHughAkbar@reddit
We had several Tandy Color Computers
QuikAuxFraises@reddit
Yes ! That also kickstarted my love of programming stuff and I made a career in it. Been coding for 37 years now !
AytumnRain@reddit
Me! Had like 5 games for it too. My dad brought it home becasue someone was tossing it. I was about 8 and no one in my family was good with eletronics. I got it running and used it for a few years.
11229988B@reddit
David Banner
warkyboy77@reddit
Not if I was the last man on earth.
Kalistes@reddit
OMG, Bill Bixby?!? I've seen that add dozens of times but never recognize the guy before
thehobster@reddit
TRS-80 was my first computer
prw8201@reddit
Green screen of death
youcancallmet@reddit
I did. And I still remember my Prodigy username/code and password.
cropguru357@reddit
TRS-80 Model 4 and a Tandy 1000TX. Yup
MadameTree@reddit
I'm going to sound like Ferris, but I asked for a Nintendo, and got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign.
Tandy 1000 EX. My dad loved Radio Shack. Was born during the Depression and not really into computers but was happy to go to Radio Shack always.
Lazy_Match724@reddit
I got one from the neighbor who moved away from across the street from us. My stepdad hooked up the base the monitor and the keyboard… but we didn’t know how to turn it on. We looked and looked and looked. Come to find out you had to switch on the keyboard and monitor and the base all at once and we didnt know the keyboard had a switch too. I was 6 but this is how i remember this going, with this computer.
Milakovich@reddit
I started out on a Vic 20 before getting the upgrade to an IBM PCjr!
Mudcreek47@reddit
Don't make me angry, computer. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.
D1rtNASTY666@reddit
I had a Tandy 486. I played Wolfenstein on that thing forever
BlindMouse2of3@reddit
We got a used one that was stained tan from cigarette smoke.
SinisterDetection@reddit
Commodore 64 here
VixxenFoxx@reddit
Hell yeah buddy!
VixxenFoxx@reddit
Commodore 64 baby
New_Needleworker_473@reddit
Me!! Lol! We had a Tandy 1000 back in the mid 80's. Lol! I remember learning basic DOS so I could play California Games and Duck Tales and Carmen San Diego on it. And we had dial up and AOL. It was sooooo slow!
the805chickenlady@reddit
I had one (my dad's old one) in high school in 1996/1997. I had the daisywheel printer too so I was able to use it for a word processor. It worked just fine for that, not much else.
Outrageous-Advice384@reddit
We had a Tandy! I wanted a Commodore 64 so bad like all my friends but my dad brought home a Tandy. Played a lot of Frogger on it.
mrmatt244@reddit
We were a Commodore 64 family
squinkythebuddy@reddit
We had a bunch in my family. My uncle was the manager of our local Radio Shack.
Still_Apartment5024@reddit
ElleAnn42@reddit
We had a Tandy 1000 and then a Tandy Sensation!
Right_Hour@reddit
I had a Tegridy instead.
all_no_pALL@reddit
Carmen Sandiego, Tetris, air traffic controller, Jack Nicklaus golf, Indiana jones and the last crusade, Rocky raccoon
DeathLikeAHammer@reddit
Oh man, Tandy! I use to play on my aunts. Rip.
papabear556@reddit
I grew up in low-income housing and food stamps (when they were an actual stamp), we didn't have this Dallas kind of money.
I grew up in low-income housing and food stamps (when they were an actual stamp), we didn't have this 90210 kind of money.
I couldn't decide which reference to use so I did both.
PotentialPlum4945@reddit
We had this exact model. Green text and black background. Real shitty Jeopardy game.
WyndWoman@reddit
Bill Bixby? Is that you?
BillCharming1905@reddit
Tandy Sensation! My first comp
Amphigorey@reddit
I had something even more obscure: a Tandem. Yes, they made home computers, and no, they weren't Tandys.
Lauriepoo@reddit
I grew up poor af. The high school I went to didn't even have computers, we had typewriting class. I didn't use a computer until I was in college and I didn't own my own computer until I was 25
Lilith_Christine@reddit
I had a tandy hx 1000 or whatever. But I got it in the 90s. So it was old.
Still played around with it.
elcheapodeluxe@reddit
We had a Tandy 1000 HX for about two days before one of my dad's friends convinced him it was a piece of garbage and he should get a 286 AT clone (Tandon?) with a 20mb hard drive. I remember the Radio Shack guy NOT wanting to allow the return. I'm guessing those guys were on commission and this was an emotional loss for him.
spanishpeanut@reddit
Finally someone who mentions a Tandon. I don’t remember which one it was that had a manual that said “Your computer remembers everything — until you turn it off!”
I learned how to recover supposedly deleted data on a Tandy, though. My mom got a used one that was being sold cheap when a business was upgrading their equipment. The whole thing was supposed to be wiped but I recovered everything. I had customer lists, inventories, detailed records, financials, you name it. My mom was pissed because she thought they’d lied about the computer being cleared. They hadn’t lied. I just had figured out how to do the recovery. I was probably in 4th or 5th grade at the time. Computers and I understand each other.
theoneandonly78@reddit
Careful, don’t make that guy angry. You won’t like him when he’s angry.
Certain_Painter_3126@reddit
Trs 80 and Tandy 1000 HX were my first two computers
poofyhairguy@reddit
Yup, a Tandy 1000 SX was my first computer.
formanner@reddit
My first computer was a Tandy 1000EX. One where the keyboard was built into the computer. One 5.25” disk drive on the side, and no HDD. Had to boot up DOS 2.11 on floppy, then swap out to any other application I wanted to use.
I remember my neighbor showing me that with the expansion port, I could upgrade the memory (I think to 512k), or put in a modem, but no room for both. I thought, “why would I ever need a modem?”, and opted for the memory bump.
emarkd@reddit
I had a TRS-80 (aka trash-80) with the dual 8" floppy setup. To be fair it was a hand-me-down rescue from a local business and was not my primary computer at the time, but it was still fun to poke around on.
OnlyAd4210@reddit
I loved my tandy 1000
HYThrowaway1980@reddit
Is that Bill Bixby, aka the one who wasn’t Lou Ferrigno in The Incredible Hull??
GreatHuntersFoot@reddit
I had a Banana 6000. Iykyk
BrooklynRobot@reddit
My public middle school had those bad boys in a data entry classroom.
Wak3upHicks@reddit
First PC was a Tandy HX-1000. I have a distinct memory of yelling "QUICK HOW DO YOU SPELL SWIM" while playing King's Quest II
AirmechFlyboy@reddit
Tandy 1000 HX. Played the hell out of the original Space Quest, and Kings Quest II.
Got better at 'em when I talked Mom into buying me the hint books with the invisible ink and fancy revealing marker.
poopy_poophead@reddit
I had a trs80 color 2. I learned BASIC on it. Im currently working on a terminal emulator that i hope to turn into a platform similar to Pico8, but with native code execution and the ability to use any programming language to develop with it.
ChochMcKenzie@reddit
That was our first computer! A Tandy 1000HX. I beat Karateka, Ghostbusters, Pirates!, Monkey Island, King’s Quest, Quest For Glory, that thing ruled.
Brilliant-Jaguar-784@reddit
Your parents could afford a computer? wow.
Micahisaac@reddit
Still have my TRS-80
ApatheistHeretic@reddit
My dad had a TRS-80 when I was young.
ArenSteele@reddit
Yes! Played me some kings quest and space quest on that bad boy?
DoggieMalone@reddit
5000 model in 1989. I used the Flight Simulator on it.
subsonicmonkey@reddit
Sorry, no. We were a Radio Shack TRS80 family.
Paddy9228@reddit
TechnicalEntry@reddit
frougle_mcdugal@reddit
Jokierre@reddit
TRS-80 was absolutely my first comp. Dungeons of Daggorath was my first taste of anxiety.
draculasbloodtype@reddit
My older sister had one, the only thing I knew how to do on it was change the screen color and play Dungeons of Daggarath. She stayed up one night all night and coded it to play Buffalo Gals.
West-Revolution8752@reddit
Ibm :sunglasses:
WhysAVariable@reddit
My buddy had one that was slightly newer than this. We played Kings Quest 2 on it and printed out incredibly shitty clip art pictures on a dot matrix printer.
No-Cicada-4651@reddit
Tandy trs-80
I remember typing in Go to… and run. Very basic coding stuff and making the screen flash different colors.
col_clipspringer@reddit
I remember playing Battle Chess and Centurian on this thing. The sound of the dot matrix printer is ingrained into my mind.
Thanks OP for the nostalgia
realoctopod@reddit
Tandy Miller?
Due-Opportunity-6114@reddit
I had a Tandy 1000 growing up. Wish I could have googled how to use it.
Spartan04@reddit
We had an Apple IIe, but my elementary school had an entire computer lab full of Tandy TRs-80s. I’m assuming they must have gotten a donation or grant or something because one school year a room that had previously been empty was now the computer lab full of Tandys.
I remember that only a small number of machines had floppy drives and the rest loaded software remotely from those machines using early networking. It took some time so they’d load up all the machines before computer class started with whatever software we’d be using.
drinkslinger1974@reddit
Whatever you do, don’t make that guy angry. You wouldn’t like it when he’s angry.
chigga21@reddit
Earl Weaver Baseball and Dragon's Lair on the good ol' Tandy 1000.
BeBopBarr@reddit
🙋♀️🙋♀️ Tandy 2000
bearlysane@reddit
Tandy 1000EX, with an additional external floppy drive, printer, joysticks, the works.
theguineapigssong@reddit
The Tandy 1000 was our family's first computer.
lqxpl@reddit
Yup. Grew up with one of these in the house. BCs Quest for Tires, Spellchopter, good times.
bearlysane@reddit
BC’s Quest! I wonder if our boxed copy is still around somewhere.
Ok-Ad5495@reddit
Our first computer was a Tandy Sensation!
cryptic-malfunction@reddit
Trash 80 babeeeeer
TheJRKoff@reddit
i wish. every time my parents took me to the mall i would ask to go to radioshack to see these things
kkaos84@reddit
Funny how those companies that were selling these home computers liked to use a legacy TV star as spokesman.
Bill Bixby for Tandy Radio Shack William Shatner for Commodore Vic20
Two Bills!
Shatner made sense due to Captain Kirk being a character living in a future with talking computers and space ships.
I guess Bixby's David Banner character being a scientist was why he was chosen as the spokesman here. "I've made so much progress in finding a cure on my Tandy!"
Trying to remember who else from classic TV had a similar role in selling computers at the time.
DriftlessHang@reddit
The only Tandy I had growing up was the Tandy Leather store that was torn down for a chain steakhouse
reillan@reddit
They still exist. There's one in my city, and they still have more than 100 locations.
Bonus: it's actually the same company. Or it used to be. Tandy computers spawned both Tandy leather and RadioShack.
(I used to work for corporate briefly, many years ago)
BlueProcess@reddit
Released with a 8088 even though the 286 was available. And the very next year the 386 came out. It went to market obsolete.
fromthedarqwaves@reddit
My neighbor did. They would print long banners on their dot matrix printer that read, “Happy Birthday Tina!” And I thought that was peak technology.
CheetahOfDeath@reddit
Samny Icon first us
picklecruncher@reddit
You mean Phil?
Bay-Area-Tanners@reddit
Superior? I hardly knew her. Boom.
Svenderhof@reddit
Okay, I'll buy one. Calm down.
SoSoOhWell@reddit
My parents thought it was a rip, so cut my teeth learning basic on the "superior" Vic20 and tape storage. Then thought I was in heaven upgrading to a 386 Packerd Hell with 16MB of Ram and 50MB HD running compression "doubling" topping out around 70. I think my first Ericcson cell phone had more capabilities.
Ippus_21@reddit
Yup.
2 of them. One slightly better than the other. The later one was kinda fast enough to play Microprose F-15 Strike Eagle II.
IceColdDump@reddit
Commodore 64 with Datasette
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
Radio shack
Sad_Increase216@reddit
No way we were rich like that lol I never had a computer at home (mom offered but I felt too bad getting an expensive gift like that when I could just use the lab at school). My parents still don't have a computer, Internet service or an online presence and they're doing just fine and can still find a way to get all their bills paid lol
Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit
Tandy color with the cassette tape
KamuiT@reddit
Yep, I didn’t know what they were called. I just called them the “old green screen computers.”
KamuiT@reddit
Yep, I didn’t know what they were called. I just called them the “old green screen computers.”
CyrusTheVirus76@reddit
Got it hand me down. From my uncle. Had a whopping 32kb ram upgraded from 16kb!
a-ha_partridge@reddit
There’s still a Tandy 1000 set up in my grandma’s basement.
Novel-Suggestion-515@reddit
Tandy 1000 from Radio Shack! Learned a lot through the Atlas
zipty842@reddit
I used one well into the late 90s. Still the most reliable computer I’ve ever had.
QuarterMaestro@reddit
Played a lot of Frogger on that thing.
Noname_Maddox@reddit
Even has rich Corinthian RAM
Nephite11@reddit
Fun fact: I had a neighbor growing up who was big into computers and had a lot of spare parts in his house. I built my family’s first computer as a Tandy box. I installed windows 3.1 and it had a whopping 3 GB hard drive
perrosandmetal78@reddit
Is that Bill Bixby? Will he turn green if you don't buy it?!
Both-Tree@reddit
Strong Bad 😂
Dandruff83@reddit
We had a “Wang” in the 80s
PastorNTraining@reddit
Omg talk about a memory I filed away deep.
That was my first computer, a hand me down from a lab at the local college. I must have been 10 years old sitting there with a giant BASIC code book programming my own games.
My eyes still water thinking of that green text