Even more specific, I think - who was advertising the hot new processor from early in the year in kid-friendly ways (th-cam.com/video/bP6DU47Pqzw/w-d-xo.html) and had hired the Blue Man Group to cut ads around then that would become utterly famous (th-cam.com/video/oyWsIObmclI/w-d-xo.html)? I'd bet a dollar this machine was finally retired as its final owner, whose family likely inherited it from a school as they themselves replaced PCs, grew up a bit and got a Pentium III machine in its stead.
“Don’t think I fit into the large, straight categories anyways…” I spit my coffee and slapped my desk until my hand turned red 😂 Your deadpan wit always gets me when I least expect it Mike, never change!
The windows start up sound clip was the character Conky from the Pee Wee's Playhouse tv show. The cat looking image in the memory game was Hobbs, from the Calvin and Hobbs comic strip. The Aladin game looks exactly like the SNES/Sega version. Excellent extended format.
Hey Mike, wanted to comment on the ram situation. It's entirely possible that the second stick of RAM was swapped at some point because it failed, but just in case you don't know this, they couldn't have run it with one stick for a while and then added a second one later for expansion. Unlike later machines with SDRAM, memory on machines with SIMMs had to be installed in pairs or quads, depending on the machine. Most 386s with 30 pin memory required it to be installed four sticks at a time, since each stick only provided 8 bits of data per read, and the 386DX had a 32-bit data bus, so you needed four in parallel to span the bus. Since this one has a permanently installed SX CPU, they were able to just put in two slots because that chip can't read more than 16 bits at a time anyway, and presumably Tandy didn't care if you couldn't upgrade it incrementally; your only choice was to throw out your current RAM and buy a completely new set, which seems like kind of a dick move given that they could have just made the board a little bit bigger and put four slots in there. Pretty much the same thing happened with 72 pin memory in the pentium era, since those sticks expanded to 32 bits just in time for the Pentium's data bus to widen to 64 bits, so those machines also require RAM to be installed in pairs, though never quads. Maybe you knew all this already, just wasn't sure, and I didn't know it for the longest time so I figured I would share. Thanks for the video!
Great info, thanks! Yeah I hadn’t realized until fairly recently just how particular SIMM modules can be with such things. Back in the day I’d always just max them out, so never noticed. SIMMs were in copious supply in the ‘90s, thanks to the vicious pace of upgrading. T’was a wonderful time for a trash-picking techy kid!
There were oddball machines that didn't conform to the proper memory layout, usually for cost reasons, but sometimes for convenience of the manufacturer. I've seen a few 486 and Pentium systems that had chipsets which could run in a painful half memory bus configuration, and they shipped that way from the factory because they were trying to be as cheap as possible. There are also other systems that went the other way, like several IBM PS/1 systems with 386SX CPUs and 72 pin 32 bit memory. Either the chipset or IBM played gymnastics to make that work. I have one such system (IBM PS/1 Model 2133-C11). It came with a 386SX-25 and has two 72 pin SIMM slots and can take up to I think 15 MB of RAM. It comes with 2 MB soldered on the logic board. I desoldered the 386SX-25 and soldered on a TI486SXLC2-50, which makes a night and day performance difference. The original board is cacheless, but the TI part has 8k of L1, and makes a huge performance difference at even the non-doubled 25 MHz clock. It's even better at 50 MHz.
@@GGigabiteM good lord, I had no idea. Good to know these exist, otherwise if I encountered one I'd never have believed it actually worked that way. Rough times.
Good ole "Rat Shack" 'puters! Tandy gear back in the day was pretty good. I was in a R&D lab at that point in Hollywood and we had a gold plaque from all the business we gave them at our local Radio shack. Never bought a Tandy system since I custom built all our lab systems, but I started on PC's on a Tandy System 2 and a Color computer (which I still have in working condition). Enjoy the no drama style you do your video's. Keep it up!
I'm really digging the more frequent upload schedule. It's amazing how the case cleaned up, and even more amazing that it worked with no issues. It's a time capsule
So nice I watched it twice. This brings back memories of me exploring my uncle's NEC 386 back then and playing Kings Quest IV and Crystal Caves. 🤗 Thank you for taking great care of a neat machine.
I would almost have pulled out my pack of offset Phillips screwdrivers to take that bottom floppy screw out of the drive.. I don't know that I could have brought myself to poke through that sticker. I'm super satisfied that you did it though, just saying, I would have rooted through all my tools to find that silly offset one and spent 20 minutes removing that screw.. You're a better man than I am. : ) Great video so far, love it!
This has to be your best video yet. Love the runtime and you seem to be so much more at ease in front of the camera or microphone. Love the self deprecating humour and the fun you had with those programms. Very well done, thanks for sharing Mike.
That playworld thing is interesting. I played "The TreeHouse" when I was a kid but it was a full program with a bunch of minigames to play. It also had voices and an owl that would read you the time and date. This seems like a weird demo or an early version. Great video!
Happy Friday to us all 😊 edit after finishing: this really is a great time capsule machine. I think the video length is absolutely justified and I'd gladly watch another hour's worth of exploration. My favorite part was where you said you didn't think you fit into the large straight categories anyway 😂🌈💚
The Tandy 2500 uses the PSSJ sound chip like the later Tandy 1000 computers. It does the multi-channel pc speaker and a pcm sound channel as well. Sad thing is older tandy games can't find the audio because the address range for the multi-channel speaker sound was moved to a different range for DMA control on the system or something like that.
As usual, you've taken care of the equipment nicely. With us in Poland ‘Tandy’ was practically unknown. As for the video, we had to wait a few days for the subtitles in your video, but they finally appeared. Thanks and looking forward to more videos !
The satisfying crack from screws are awesome when it's on metal and unnerving on plastic. But it also means nobody has opened it in a long time, if ever, so it can be a sigh of relief too.
I'm old enough to remember when the Aladdin game came out on the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was still rocking a Tandy 1000 RLX with a 286 when it came out in 1993 so most of my gaming back then was on console. Also, I woke my wife up laughing at your "straight group" joke, lol.
1:13:20 ... from a Reddit post: "For anyone wondering why this happens, it [WINFILE] seems to be converting the year to two digits by subtracting 1900 from it, dividing it by ten, then using the quotient as the first digit, and the remainder as the second digit. To display each digit as a character, it adds 48 to it, 48 being the ASCII value of the digit '0'. This works since ASCII has all of the digits in order. But this doesn't work if the result of subtracting 1900 is more than two digits. 2023 minus 1900 is 123. So using this algorithm, it determines that the first digit is 12, and the second digit is 3. So when it adds 48 to make the first digit an ASCII character, it ends up overshooting the end of the digits."
Wow a Tandy from 1992. The very first computer I saw in person was a Tandy in 1982. It’s funny, in 1982 I did not know what a home computer was. Back then when infomercials advertised home computers they were basically for storage. That was before the internet. It amazes me we went from just storage and calendars to cruising the internet. I’m showing my age lol. Wow it booted up well. Windows 3.1 😮. I haven’t played Tetris in a long time. Wow this reminds me of the computers that individual teachers brought in from home. That was before the Apple contract. These games look familiar to me. Games that were used in the learning support classrooms. Nice key you made! I remember the memory game! This was a funny video with all the quirky school games, crazy sounds and of course your humor! This system looks great all cleaned up!
Tandy made great systems/hardware, they always thought to make everything fully serviceable, in part this did kill them in the PC market because they could not 'cheaply' manufacture vs other companies, but Tandy was well known for picking very 'solid' suppliers and components. certain things in the system were done to help mitigate vibration - the Fan mounted with tape vs being screwed to the case.
The fact it was used til 1999 kinda confirms it being a school system. They tend to hold on to machines for a long time. Also you'd have to write out 2024 in full for DOS to accept the year.
One day I should mesure the voltage on my Pentium CMOS battery, there’s a 95-03 date code printed on it and the board still retains its CMOS settings fine so far. That machine was amazing and that hard drive certainly delivered with a lot of stuff to explore. I wish the drives weren’t missing so often.
9:00 That is to ensure that at least one of the screws has electrical contact, those screws have grips under the head that scrape off material when tightened or loosened so there is some "sacrificial" material added that can be safely scraped away, and motherboard designs before year ~2000 cannot work reliably on the floating ground reference given by most power supplies, the clocks and RTC can go wonky, random crashes, bus failures... so they use the chassis as a stable reference ground, which is then connected to the power supply chassis, which is then connected to the protective earth wire in the power cable. Which is why the manuals all say to never connect the computer to a two-prong outlet.
Back for a rewatch. Played this version of Aladdin for Sega Genesis when it came out. Can confirm the sound is worth getting to work :) what an awesome treasure trove of 90s kids gaming.
this was fun to watch. My first PC as a kid was a Tandy 2500sx/25 (386sx 25mhz) it came w/ dos 5.0 and windows 3.0. We added a Media Vision external CDrom kit to it which consisted of a media vision thunder board and a scsi card for the 2x external cd rom. we also upgraded the modem to a hayes (genuine) 14.4. I think in it's final form it had a conner 850mb hard drive and 8mb of ram.
Another entertaining upload! Thanks Mike. Remember 3.1 and 3.1.1 back in the day. Really didn’t want to move to Win95. But hey, don’t miss the 8 by 3 Character limitation you had back then. Cheers 🍻
Ooooh, I own one of these and it's one of my favorites. I've upgraded it with a Gotek, CF-to-IDE and Sound Blaster 2.0 installed. Maxed out the RAM as well.
Had to double check that I wasn't watching The Nostalgia Mall channel. Billy Coore likes to show those old kid games a lot. lol That start-up sound was from the Peewee Herman show. I loved that version of the Aladdin game! It was originally released on the Sega Genesis!
What I've been doing when I open dust cake machines is I'll strip ALL components out of the machine and throw it into either the bath tub or into my wash tub next to the washing machine. Just use warm water with low to moderate pressure (I use an open-ended host attached to the faucet) and just spray the case down. Gets into crevices that brushes don't get to. I leave the machine to dry over night, or, I use a shop vac on blow-mode to dry the case.
Might want to check out the wiki article on DoubleSpace, later known as DriveSpace. Could have been causing some of the issues you were seeing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
I remember back in the MS DOS era that many games had a 'Tandy Sound' option which might be the onboard sound solution you have on that machine although I think that might have started when Tandy were selling 286 PC's. I think there was also a Tandy colour mode as well although that was a CGA competitor rather than something like VGA.
For the Aladdin game - You could probably see what sound card is being used in the Windows control panel, then select that option and all that in SETSND.
Interesting box that cleaned up really well, I did skip over some of that shareware game stuff, just something to test the delete function with. If mine, I'd be trying some emulators for my TRS-80 model 1, as doing on this one at least keeps it all in the Tandy camp. Pity you don't have a matching monitor.
I have this exact same computer I found it in a truck load of scrap sat 15yrs here thinking needed a tandy monitor then ran across a video about pulling that pin and booted it up runs great sound knob on this one is in the same shape loose I need ram chips coprocessor and video ram I had a cd-rom drive here put that in works great in it the sound is tandy sound chip the video is cirruslogic 5440 i think numbers might be different but it good enough for this system there is a bios with pretty good settings I installed deskmate on it that what it came with along with windows they made a tandy windows but not sure if this one had it
It's interesting to see this case. A nonprofit I did some work for many years ago had an AST PC with a Pentium 75 in it. I believe the case design had been modified to hold a standard AT power supply...but maybe it was still proprietary. Otherwise, if I'm remembering correctly, it was the same design including needing to take out the port studs to remove the motherboard. They must have thought it was worth keeping the design when Tandy sold them the manufacturing business!
Playing Games section: I think that School has implemented Digital life 😅, like today. Oh yeah, I'm person who loving basic games over demanding games. Seeing you playing games on that Computer, reminds me the time I played "GameHouse" on Laptop in 2012-2014 😅
@@miketech1024 Ya too many tech YT'ers. 80% are either not that great or just a major rehashing of the same shat over and over. I'll put out the word home boy, but keep up with the vid's. I always look forward to yours.
"This thing refuses to come to the new millenium!"
I think that's probably for the best. It won't like it here.
December 99 is easy to explain - someone finally got a new PC for Christmas.
Even more specific, I think - who was advertising the hot new processor from early in the year in kid-friendly ways (th-cam.com/video/bP6DU47Pqzw/w-d-xo.html) and had hired the Blue Man Group to cut ads around then that would become utterly famous (th-cam.com/video/oyWsIObmclI/w-d-xo.html)?
I'd bet a dollar this machine was finally retired as its final owner, whose family likely inherited it from a school as they themselves replaced PCs, grew up a bit and got a Pentium III machine in its stead.
“Don’t think I fit into the large, straight categories anyways…”
I spit my coffee and slapped my desk until my hand turned red 😂
Your deadpan wit always gets me when I least expect it Mike, never change!
Ya Mike needs a Nerd stand up routine! Crush'n as always.
HE'S IN THAT BOOF PACK
1:02:08
Mike how exactly are we supposed to interpret this? 😅
The windows start up sound clip was the character Conky from the Pee Wee's Playhouse tv show. The cat looking image in the memory game was Hobbs, from the Calvin and Hobbs comic strip. The Aladin game looks exactly like the SNES/Sega version. Excellent extended format.
I could tell it was Hobbes lol. But good job on recognizing where that startup sound came from.
The finglonger!! I immediately laughed out and though "Good News, everyone!"
Gorgeous! The Tandy looks pretty good too!
He's the Retro Stud.
The tight shirt, the huge pecs and biceps...... 1st part of video is enticing and distracting at the same time 🙂
Holy arms...lol
Makes me weak
Mike changes my orientation.
Was going to say... Came for the tech, stayed cos of the guns!
100% 😂 @@TheCodeDaemon
Wish I knew his instagram 😜
Hey Mike, wanted to comment on the ram situation. It's entirely possible that the second stick of RAM was swapped at some point because it failed, but just in case you don't know this, they couldn't have run it with one stick for a while and then added a second one later for expansion.
Unlike later machines with SDRAM, memory on machines with SIMMs had to be installed in pairs or quads, depending on the machine. Most 386s with 30 pin memory required it to be installed four sticks at a time, since each stick only provided 8 bits of data per read, and the 386DX had a 32-bit data bus, so you needed four in parallel to span the bus. Since this one has a permanently installed SX CPU, they were able to just put in two slots because that chip can't read more than 16 bits at a time anyway, and presumably Tandy didn't care if you couldn't upgrade it incrementally; your only choice was to throw out your current RAM and buy a completely new set, which seems like kind of a dick move given that they could have just made the board a little bit bigger and put four slots in there.
Pretty much the same thing happened with 72 pin memory in the pentium era, since those sticks expanded to 32 bits just in time for the Pentium's data bus to widen to 64 bits, so those machines also require RAM to be installed in pairs, though never quads. Maybe you knew all this already, just wasn't sure, and I didn't know it for the longest time so I figured I would share. Thanks for the video!
Great info, thanks! Yeah I hadn’t realized until fairly recently just how particular SIMM modules can be with such things. Back in the day I’d always just max them out, so never noticed. SIMMs were in copious supply in the ‘90s, thanks to the vicious pace of upgrading. T’was a wonderful time for a trash-picking techy kid!
There were oddball machines that didn't conform to the proper memory layout, usually for cost reasons, but sometimes for convenience of the manufacturer.
I've seen a few 486 and Pentium systems that had chipsets which could run in a painful half memory bus configuration, and they shipped that way from the factory because they were trying to be as cheap as possible.
There are also other systems that went the other way, like several IBM PS/1 systems with 386SX CPUs and 72 pin 32 bit memory. Either the chipset or IBM played gymnastics to make that work.
I have one such system (IBM PS/1 Model 2133-C11). It came with a 386SX-25 and has two 72 pin SIMM slots and can take up to I think 15 MB of RAM. It comes with 2 MB soldered on the logic board.
I desoldered the 386SX-25 and soldered on a TI486SXLC2-50, which makes a night and day performance difference. The original board is cacheless, but the TI part has 8k of L1, and makes a huge performance difference at even the non-doubled 25 MHz clock. It's even better at 50 MHz.
@@GGigabiteM good lord, I had no idea. Good to know these exist, otherwise if I encountered one I'd never have believed it actually worked that way. Rough times.
Good ole "Rat Shack" 'puters! Tandy gear back in the day was pretty good. I was in a R&D lab at that point in Hollywood and we had a gold plaque from all the business we gave them at our local Radio shack. Never bought a Tandy system since I custom built all our lab systems, but I started on PC's on a Tandy System 2 and a Color computer (which I still have in working condition). Enjoy the no drama style you do your video's. Keep it up!
I'm really digging the more frequent upload schedule. It's amazing how the case cleaned up, and even more amazing that it worked with no issues. It's a time capsule
Great content! Your humor and skill is unmatched! Keep up the good work!
❤ My childhood! This is a very special machine for me.
Weekly videos? Yes please!❤
Even tho my interest lies in midrange systems I still have a heart for Tandy's😁
Keep it up!
I've never seen you break a sweat over a floppy drive. Until today. Very cool piece of retro tech.
This is a special one!
I'm amazed with how nice that case cleaned up! Cheers to another awesome video.
I wish more channels gave their stuff a proper clean on camera. Some channels don't even bother cleaning it til the end.
loved the more than 1h content
Same
It screams for the loving care of Mike. Thanks for the video!
So nice I watched it twice.
This brings back memories of me exploring my uncle's NEC 386 back then and playing Kings Quest IV and Crystal Caves. 🤗
Thank you for taking great care of a neat machine.
I would almost have pulled out my pack of offset Phillips screwdrivers to take that bottom floppy screw out of the drive.. I don't know that I could have brought myself to poke through that sticker. I'm super satisfied that you did it though, just saying, I would have rooted through all my tools to find that silly offset one and spent 20 minutes removing that screw.. You're a better man than I am. : ) Great video so far, love it!
I know exactly the tools I would need and where to find them. I wouldn't dare poke the sticker.
This has to be your best video yet. Love the runtime and you seem to be so much more at ease in front of the camera or microphone. Love the self deprecating humour and the fun you had with those programms. Very well done, thanks for sharing Mike.
Wow, memory unlocked from that conky sound. It was a robot in the TV show PeeWee's Playhouse.
At least on tetris....you finished on the perfect amount of lines 😎
DOS has no problem accepting dates after 1999. You just need to type in all four digits of the year.
Good Job, thanks for the efforts for preparing the video.
mike: i really have a hard time imagining this has onboard sound
tandy: *hammering* co-conky two thousaaand ready to assist you peewee!
also let's take a moment to appreciate your cool key!
I sincerely questioned my own sanity for about 300ms after hearing that startup sound.
wow that thing was FILTHY but you did a remarkable job cleaning it, it looks brand new!
39:05 oh god 😂
That is a fantastic example of a 386sx. It looks really well engineered. Great video Mike!
"I'm not gonna say what that's starting to look like. If you know, you know". I do, in fact, know ;)
That playworld thing is interesting. I played "The TreeHouse" when I was a kid but it was a full program with a bunch of minigames to play. It also had voices and an owl that would read you the time and date. This seems like a weird demo or an early version. Great video!
OMG the nostalgia!
I love your videos and commentary. Keep up the good work! 💙🏳🌈
The connect-a-dot was definitely a queen. I didn't see anything suspicious about it.
Maybe I just put a stopper in that part of my brain.
Happy Friday to us all 😊 edit after finishing: this really is a great time capsule machine. I think the video length is absolutely justified and I'd gladly watch another hour's worth of exploration. My favorite part was where you said you didn't think you fit into the large straight categories anyway 😂🌈💚
The Tandy 2500 uses the PSSJ sound chip like the later Tandy 1000 computers. It does the multi-channel pc speaker and a pcm sound channel as well. Sad thing is older tandy games can't find the audio because the address range for the multi-channel speaker sound was moved to a different range for DMA control on the system or something like that.
What a beauty. kind of reminds me of the Amiga 4000.
It does! LOL I should have seen that! (I'm an Amiga Service center tech) I must be getting old!
As usual, you've taken care of the equipment nicely. With us in Poland ‘Tandy’ was practically unknown. As for the video, we had to wait a few days for the subtitles in your video, but they finally appeared. Thanks and looking forward to more videos !
Another really entertaining video, really enjoyed the longer format, thank for the video Mike
The satisfying crack from screws are awesome when it's on metal and unnerving on plastic. But it also means nobody has opened it in a long time, if ever, so it can be a sigh of relief too.
Own this same model! Had it for over 30 years in my parents basement
I'm old enough to remember when the Aladdin game came out on the Mega Drive/Genesis. I was still rocking a Tandy 1000 RLX with a 286 when it came out in 1993 so most of my gaming back then was on console. Also, I woke my wife up laughing at your "straight group" joke, lol.
1:13:20 ... from a Reddit post: "For anyone wondering why this happens, it [WINFILE] seems to be converting the year to two digits by subtracting 1900 from it, dividing it by ten, then using the quotient as the first digit, and the remainder as the second digit. To display each digit as a character, it adds 48 to it, 48 being the ASCII value of the digit '0'. This works since ASCII has all of the digits in order.
But this doesn't work if the result of subtracting 1900 is more than two digits. 2023 minus 1900 is 123. So using this algorithm, it determines that the first digit is 12, and the second digit is 3. So when it adds 48 to make the first digit an ASCII character, it ends up overshooting the end of the digits."
@@zoomosis In their defense, who could have possibly foreseen that time would continue advancing forward?
This has been such an awesome system.
Yay for > 1hr videos cleaning and exploring systems!
Wow a Tandy from 1992. The very first computer I saw in person was a Tandy in 1982. It’s funny, in 1982 I did not know what a home computer was. Back then when infomercials advertised home computers they were basically for storage.
That was before the internet. It amazes me we went from just storage and calendars to cruising the internet. I’m showing my age lol.
Wow it booted up well. Windows 3.1 😮. I haven’t played Tetris in a long time. Wow this reminds me of the computers that individual teachers brought in from home. That was before the Apple contract. These games look familiar to me. Games that were used in the learning support classrooms. Nice key you made! I remember the memory game!
This was a funny video with all the quirky school games, crazy sounds and of course your humor! This system looks great all cleaned up!
Tandy made great systems/hardware, they always thought to make everything fully serviceable, in part this did kill them in the PC market because they could not 'cheaply' manufacture vs other companies, but Tandy was well known for picking very 'solid' suppliers and components. certain things in the system were done to help mitigate vibration - the Fan mounted with tape vs being screwed to the case.
A vintage Tandy resto from MikeTech? What's next - classic Mac recap? C64 troubleshooting? Apple II upgrades? The world wonders!
If I could find them in my usual e-waste hauls I definitely would!
@@miketech1024 I wish e-waste hauls existed where I am. It's usually estate sales or some random person selling stuff
no cash is a classic, brings back some memories. used to play pokemon gold with it when i was like 8
Vikings was a GREAT game, remember it well. spent many an hour playing that.
Cannot WAIT to watch this after work today! Thanks Mike! ❤
You fit in my categories just fine 😉
The fact it was used til 1999 kinda confirms it being a school system. They tend to hold on to machines for a long time. Also you'd have to write out 2024 in full for DOS to accept the year.
One day I should mesure the voltage on my Pentium CMOS battery, there’s a 95-03 date code printed on it and the board still retains its CMOS settings fine so far.
That machine was amazing and that hard drive certainly delivered with a lot of stuff to explore. I wish the drives weren’t missing so often.
9:00 That is to ensure that at least one of the screws has electrical contact, those screws have grips under the head that scrape off material when tightened or loosened so there is some "sacrificial" material added that can be safely scraped away, and motherboard designs before year ~2000 cannot work reliably on the floating ground reference given by most power supplies, the clocks and RTC can go wonky, random crashes, bus failures... so they use the chassis as a stable reference ground, which is then connected to the power supply chassis, which is then connected to the protective earth wire in the power cable. Which is why the manuals all say to never connect the computer to a two-prong outlet.
Your dry humour gets me every time xD Great video as always. Didn't know Tandy-Computers were so PC-Like.
Loved my Tandy TL/2..
Back for a rewatch. Played this version of Aladdin for Sega Genesis when it came out. Can confirm the sound is worth getting to work :) what an awesome treasure trove of 90s kids gaming.
Thanks Mike!!! Loved it ❤
That was quite an interesting time capsule you found in this old Tandy!
this was fun to watch. My first PC as a kid was a Tandy 2500sx/25 (386sx 25mhz) it came w/ dos 5.0 and windows 3.0. We added a Media Vision external CDrom kit to it which consisted of a media vision thunder board and a scsi card for the 2x external cd rom. we also upgraded the modem to a hayes (genuine) 14.4. I think in it's final form it had a conner 850mb hard drive and 8mb of ram.
Another entertaining upload! Thanks Mike. Remember 3.1 and 3.1.1 back in the day. Really didn’t want to move to Win95. But hey, don’t miss the 8 by 3 Character limitation you had back then. Cheers 🍻
Ooooh, I own one of these and it's one of my favorites. I've upgraded it with a Gotek, CF-to-IDE and Sound Blaster 2.0 installed. Maxed out the RAM as well.
What a beast! The pc is nice too
The same HD I put in the the 386sx-25 I built sometime in '92.
Had to double check that I wasn't watching The Nostalgia Mall channel. Billy Coore likes to show those old kid games a lot. lol
That start-up sound was from the Peewee Herman show. I loved that version of the Aladdin game! It was originally released on the Sega Genesis!
Thanks Mike! Great video
I have this same tandy!!! Loved the monitor mine came with
Oh man the nostalgia, I played that Aladin demo so many times on my 486, it was my first PC and I didn't have many games on it.
34:56 "BOOM!!! Tetris for Jeff"
What I've been doing when I open dust cake machines is I'll strip ALL components out of the machine and throw it into either the bath tub or into my wash tub next to the washing machine. Just use warm water with low to moderate pressure (I use an open-ended host attached to the faucet) and just spray the case down. Gets into crevices that brushes don't get to. I leave the machine to dry over night, or, I use a shop vac on blow-mode to dry the case.
Connect the Dots is (apparently) a very grown up game! 😂
That Tandy is amazing and looks like so much fun!
Man... you miss "scorched" for Scorched Earth! Best tank game ever on DOS! (and the same author makes Pocket Tanks on PC, IOS, and Android)
❤ Tandy
You know vacuums exist, right? Great video as always! Thanks much
Yeah, but the ESD they create scares me. There are anti-static vacuums, but they’re quite pricey. I’ll probably cave in and buy one eventually.
@@miketech1024 can use an ESD blower instead so long as you do it outside
This is a bad ass computer👍 😊
@@theturtle2121 100 PERCENT
Guitar picks are so handy.
I've never wanted to be reincarnated into a Tandy 2500 before, but after seeing that thumbnail, that might go straight at the top of the list. 😅
Holy crap! I haven't seen the NoCa$h GameBoy emulator in forever.
Would it have worked on this system?
@@thedopplereffect00 I would think so, but probably under DOS.
@@johnruschmeyer5769 yeah, I don't know why he kept trying to run DOS games inside windows. That rarely works.
That lightbulb head guy was Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes!
the funnest ❤️
I had one of these! Added a CD-ROM drive and a low-end Soundblaster to it.
I think this came with a DAC so you could play wave files but you needed a sound card for anything else.
Might want to check out the wiki article on DoubleSpace, later known as DriveSpace. Could have been causing some of the issues you were seeing. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DriveSpace
This is so cool!
Great video
I remember back in the MS DOS era that many games had a 'Tandy Sound' option which might be the onboard sound solution you have on that machine although I think that might have started when Tandy were selling 286 PC's. I think there was also a Tandy colour mode as well although that was a CGA competitor rather than something like VGA.
Watching now :)
Lighbulb head guy? That's Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes.
Ikr lol
My first computer was a 2500 sx 25, served me well from 1993-1995, until I built my first pentium system
RE: Conky: Real name: Conky 2000 - That was the robot from the Pee Wee Herman show.
Love this❤
For the Aladdin game - You could probably see what sound card is being used in the Windows control panel, then select that option and all that in SETSND.
I love the videos of exploring the hard drives of pre-pentium based systems. Too bad most of the ones you get are stripped of their drives.
Got exceptionally with this treasure trove of data!
yay new video❤
Interesting box that cleaned up really well, I did skip over some of that shareware game stuff, just something to test the delete function with.
If mine, I'd be trying some emulators for my TRS-80 model 1, as doing on this one at least keeps it all in the Tandy camp. Pity you don't have a matching monitor.
Haha love the Futurama reference
I have this exact same computer I found it in a truck load of scrap sat 15yrs here thinking needed a tandy monitor then ran across a video about pulling that pin and booted it up runs great sound knob on this one is in the same shape loose I need ram chips coprocessor and video ram I had a cd-rom drive here put that in works great in it the sound is tandy sound chip the video is cirruslogic 5440 i think numbers might be different but it good enough for this system there is a bios with pretty good settings I installed deskmate on it that what it came with along with windows they made a tandy windows but not sure if this one had it
I specifically found a 14 pin VGA cable on Amazon, ended up getting a couple of them as I now have several Compaq machines with 14pin VGA on them.
It's interesting to see this case. A nonprofit I did some work for many years ago had an AST PC with a Pentium 75 in it. I believe the case design had been modified to hold a standard AT power supply...but maybe it was still proprietary. Otherwise, if I'm remembering correctly, it was the same design including needing to take out the port studs to remove the motherboard. They must have thought it was worth keeping the design when Tandy sold them the manufacturing business!
Playing Games section: I think that School has implemented Digital life 😅, like today. Oh yeah, I'm person who loving basic games over demanding games. Seeing you playing games on that Computer, reminds me the time I played "GameHouse" on Laptop in 2012-2014 😅
I love your vids. You make me laugh every time. You really need to quit that day job and do this full time!!
Honestly if it could get to be even 50% of my job income, I probably would. Currently very far from that unfortunately. Maybe someday!
@@miketech1024 Ya too many tech YT'ers. 80% are either not that great or just a major rehashing of the same shat over and over. I'll put out the word home boy, but keep up with the vid's. I always look forward to yours.
Love how this PC is like 90% air and case and 10% motherboard lol. Such a tiny PCB. Could totally have been a pizzabox or even a luggable.
funny seeing East Anglia on that game
1:02:12 Figured you wouldn't looking at the background on your watch ;) Me neither tho haha