The Story of The Tandy 1000 - How Tandy Beat IBM at Their Own Game - Tandy Lab
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- It's the legendary Tandy 1000! Tandy received praise and success with their Tandy 1000, a computer from 1983 that launched the long lasting Tandy 1000 line. It's origins begin with the failure of the IBM PCjr, which Tandy cloned, fixed, and sold in their radio shack stores. What made the Tandy 1000 so special? Tandy mode graphics? great hardware? Radio Shacks customer service? All of the above?
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I just want to congratulate your channel. I enjoy watching videos about vintage computers. I have subscribed and hope to continue supporting your channel. Keep it up!
My first computer was a randy 1000 EX, and I loved it
7:30, The original 26-1000 and 26-1000a (same model, updated ROM) Tandy 1000 models had the CM-2 as the color monitor option. It was a splendid beast, fine dot pitch. But bulky and quite expensive; the CM-5 and 11 replaced it, to give either an affordable option or a more compact case. Originally you had to put TWO 128-256K boards in it to bring the think up to 640K, later a single board with memory up to 512K on it would do the job; very important considering how few slots there were. I worked for the Federal Center Radio Shack Computer Center in'85-86, a retail, and marketing (to Government) store near DC. The district manager and shools marketing rep had offices there. As the retail clerk, I'd load Sierra King's Quest Tandy 1000s as a demo. That alone sold a few Tandy 1000s!
you know something is a commodity when it shows up in Radio Shack 🤣
I enjoy all the Tandy love. I’d love to have a segment not so much on the computers themselves but the way RadioShack supported them. The reason my family got one was as much to do with the high level of support and help we got from our local RadioShack dealer as the computer itself. I could and did bike over to the local RadioShack as a kid and ask for help on fixing things or trying new things. It’s a lot like the Apple stores of today with their ‘geniuses’.
Entertaining and educational as always. Thanks.
Nice work buddy. I’m enjoying your computing/gaming docs. Look forward to the next!
I started watching these videos a few months ago and your entire line up is fantastic . Keep it up
Ho my! Love the vdo. Tandy 1000SX was my first computer. Back in the days I was amazed to find it had more potential than a traditional PC, more colours and more sounds. Btw, the audio out does only carry one voice of the 3 channels the internal speakers produce. You should also take a look at the Tandy DMP-30 printer, it plays littles tunes when powering on or when doing the self test.
Another great video!
How have I not found this channel??? Lots of great content. And happy #SepTandy!
This is the story of my childhood.
I've got three, HX, RLX, and a basic 1000 model. I bought the 1000 from the original owner. He bought a 20 Mb hardcard for it at the time and everything still works.
i know this is an old video and a good one. i miss radio shack parts, computers and there old school stereos.
Radio shack, Tandy and realistic. it was a great ride and fun back in the day. EDIT: there every year catalogs.
Please focus more on the following systems: TRS-80 Models I, II, III, 4, 4P and 16.
And 12, 16B and 6000.
Well done, congrats with the video..very well made a jou to see :-)
TGA16 is all I can say 😢 I miss these days
“Talk about this or any computer” love it!
I had the TANDY 1000-EX I put the chips in myself as a kid to upgrade the RAM to 684K. It was simple and I loved to be the only kid on my block to have one! I had a F-15 flight simulator game that was totally KOOL for the time! Then the 486 came out.. My Gateway 486 had a swapped-out CPU @ 100-Mhz. AMD instead of the 33-Mhz. INTEL I had a SEAGATE 2-Ghz. HD... and 33-mb of RAM!!
A great video on a legendary computer from our sister channel!
My first computer!! #DESKMATE!!!
I grew up using the TRS-80 Model 1, Model 4 and Model 4P, and would love to see any of them get the full Newsmakers Tech treatment
Tandy 1000 SX was my first computer -- bought it used in the early 90s.
And one thing I always hated about the Tandy keyboard is where backspace was located
What a classic!
The Tandy 1000 and the PCjr each have their own interesting features, with hindsight which do you like better?
I had the Tandy and my best friend had the PCjr. I can't say that I thought either one was better, but I did prefer the Tandy from the design of it.
Great video but I feel compelled to say you need a pop shield, or turning the mike slightly away. Otherwise, perfect!
Ooo, do the PET 2001! My first Commodore when my school tossed it out and the first Pet.
would you ever do a comparison video between the coco 3 and the commodore 128 ?
Overall, I think you gave a great overview of the Tandy 1000 computer(s). It would be interesting to see you compare the Model I, Commodore PET and the Apple II, since they all came out very close to each other.
If we owned a model 1 or a PET we would! We have quite a few Apple II systems but they are all later models
Xenix and cp/m systems are neat...
Everything else about this vid was awesome.
But hearing, "puh-riff-ree-alls," tweaks something in my brain.
Much like when someone says, "right off the back."
😂😂😂
At 2:00 you mention the PC Jr has the power of the PC's 8086 CPU. This is inaccurate since IBM used the 8088 for both the PC and PC Jr. It was cheaper to implement because it uses an 8-bit data bus similar to the 8080. The Tandy 1000 and most clones also adopted the 8088 over the more expensive 8086.
What is your experience with the legendary Tandy 1000?
Sorry to be a bother, but I recently acquired a TANDY 1000 HD. Does it require the proprietary monitor, or am I able to use the video/audio port to employ a CRT monitor?
I built a turbo circuit board for the 8088 cpu in my Tandy 1000. It was called the PC Sprint and you can find instructions here - www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/documents.html. It doesn't work with all games and programs, some will crash with the overlock, but many games do work.
actually it was the cm-2 first then the cm-4 and cm 10 the others came later
Did the 1000 have the 8086 or the less powerful 8088 CPU?
8088 - I upgraded mine with a V20. Ah the good old days.....
peripheral
I had to say it... periph-reals? Great video though dude :)
Just that good Ole Wisconsin accent getting in the way! I try to generally speak with a neutral accent but sometimes it slips in
Um, what are you looking at?
u trans bruh?
You need to look at the camera, it looks like you are staring at the moon or something. very hard to watch
We get feedback about this often. Please be aware that Jacob has a visual impairment and works very hard at improving his on camera work.
@@NewsmakersTech Ah, I thought he was reading off of a script.
I thought he needed to move the teleprompter closer to the camera.
@@NewsmakersTech There's absolutely nothing wrong with his presentation, I think y'all do a perfect job. People need to stop making shifty comments.