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.
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
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 should have mentioned that you can see a whole library of the catalogs at www.radioshackcatalogs.com/
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.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for the memories!
6:10 They were still selling space warp and microchess for the model I in 1985? Wow!
At least in the catalogs, they really hung on to all their old platforms way longer than any modern company would it seems.