Weekend Event - Super Bowl - Tandy

[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

Youtube commercial for Tandy computers.

Never heard of them.

Comments

[eleridragon.livejournal.com]

Tandy owned Radio Shack. I think they changed the name of everything to Radio Shack awhile ago, though. Our first computer was a TRS-80, back in 1980. My brother still has it and it still, amazingly, works, all 16k of memory! It was fantastic for text based adventures, graphics, not so much. ;)

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes: the TRaSh-80. All the geeks in my high school went to the computer lab to use them.

[eleridragon.livejournal.com]

Wow, we didn't even have computer labs at my school until at least a couple of years after the BBC B came out over here.

[twillery.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness, I remember that commercial--I was in high school--so cool at the time!^^

[kittymink.livejournal.com]

Tandy was the old name of Radio Shack's parent company. RS was called Tandy in the UK.

This was an IBM PC compatible. Before this they had the TRS-80 and the wonderful Color Computer. (Atari, Commodore and Apple computers were better but still.)

[sid]

Well, if the Hulk says it's Incredible, who am I to doubt?

[aj-hyena.livejournal.com]

We've certainly come a long way. Singularity ahoy!

[benji.livejournal.com]

I remember I had a ghost busters game on the pc. It used to ask you if you were installing to a tandy 2000 before you installed it. What a strange question. I presume they had some differemt driver setup to most other ibm PCs at the time?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I had a Tandy computer! We programmed stuff in BASIC on it.