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Thank you for the video, Sir! I wish I were there, too...

i picked up my apple ii with 2 floppy drives for $15 at goodwill many years ago. this was before the internet & eBay.

Great haul! I got X16 number 965 myself and am just firing it up too.

Wished I could have made it this year. Was at a different convention that happened on the same weekend.

6:17 No pulley in the middle?

Very cool! I still haven't put power to mine yet to see what it will do LOL.

Yes that was a quite impressive machine in it's day. Too expensive for me. I had an Apple II, which was terrible for business software, BUT with the Z80 Softcard and an 80-column display card and CP/M all of a sudden it was PERFECTLY READY FOR business programming, with dBASE II,a masterpiece breakthrough in its day and I was not missing a thing anymore and was soo happy, and ready for business. In your upcoming videos, can you show how the Model II ran CP/M, e.g. WordStar and/or dBASE II?

Wish I could see your screen and read text while you did those steps. Hacking around with mine now-and there’s no real step by step guide on these. Yes I’ve gone to the GitHub and website by brutman and those are superb resources- for old pc experts!

Can't wait to see how you address the keyboard problem. Hope it's a simple adapter to get it going.

Wo! What kind of Z is that in that background at 16:35? Before I started collecting retro computers, I collected Z cars LOL I just acquired a Model II this week... with DMP-400 printer, disk expansion unit, original manuals & software, and a Compaq Portable to boot! Looking forward to getting them all out of my car this weekend (good thing I wasn't in a Z!) and testing everything out.

Thanks for the recap of the fest! We had a great time exhibiting :)

Fantastic Video...Much appreciated. I just got a TexElec card and am having a tough time. I used VirtualBox to format a 512MB CF card with MS-DOS 5.0. The card is not recognized by my system. Any help you could give me on how to get the card setup properly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Scott

2.25 hdd laptop size

Happy that you found some new batteries. Gotta love it when a plan comes together.

This was really helpful! I just bought a PCjr yesterday, and now I've ordered this same SD device from Raphnet. I appreciate the info you shared here!

I absolutely love this game. I continue to play it now on my Linux machines (Nethack). I have never gotten out of the game in 20 years of playing. :) But it's darn fun to lose... one of the few games that I can tolerate the difficulty.

Nice overview. And you retro Rick rolled us with that Deskmate doc!

Have never played F-15 Strike Eagle on my PCjr, will have to give it a spin.

I use to have an SL/2. I wish I still had it.

Odd enough, my Apple power Macintosh 7200/75 has all 3 PCI slots used up for vga card, IDE card, and USB. I add a 128 MB of memory to along with 10GB hard drive and 40x cd burner, I have no software to write disk with it.

Cool video, thanks for being so informative and concise!

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Late 1980s childhood memory bliss compliments of a 3-note (+ 1 "noise" channel) polyphony squarewave generator (implemented on an IC from Texas Instruments built right onto the motherboard) and some clever programming! Having deskmate built into ROM loaded up so fast... But man was it slow navigating the music program waiting for the screen to redraw... The "high-res" 640x200x4 colors video mode was perfect for deskmate, and looked better than CGA because all four colors were used (blue for background; white, red and yellow for foreground) unlike most CGA games where only three colors were used and the background, which counted as a "color" was set to black. Also unlike games Deskmate didnt have to simulate real-life graphics, but rather just "information" and a GUI. Also deskmate came free with the computer, which itself was already quite inexpensive for the time and superior to the IBM PC in terms of graphics and sound.

6:10 They were still selling space warp and microchess for the model I in 1985? Wow!

I should have mentioned that you can see a whole library of the catalogs at www.radioshackcatalogs.com/

Dungeons of Daggorath. INCREDIBLE GAME! I used to dream of playing all of the games listed in these catalogs. Crazy thing is, now we can go to a web site emulator and play them in just a couple of minutes.

i had the color computer 2 back in 1985. it was my first computer that my dad picked for me and the best computer i ever had.

HI, good review, i had kept the catalogs from @ 1982 to 1990. It was amazing to follow a product and watch the price drop each year, especially the Z80 versions. Regards George

The Tandy 2000 deserves to be remembered because due to its high resolution color graphics, Microsoft chose it as the system to develop one of their most important pieces of software at the time: a little experiment you may have heard of called Windows. Yes, Windows 1.0 for PC was built on the Tandy 2000, and its modular architecture meant that it could run on both machines, be tested on the 2000 and then boot on PC with different drivers.

Thanks for the memories!

Are you willing / able to post a dump of the Audio Spectrum Analyzer somewhere? I've never seen this version before. All other copies of that software i've seen look like this: th-cam.com/video/2-d0fZnI40U/w-d-xo.html