Super video. I had a MC-10 when I was a teen in the early 80s. I learned BASIC programming on it and had to make all games and utils myselve, because there were only 2 tapes for sale at the local Tandy store with games. Good times. (I also bought the 16K memory expansion to expand the MC-10 total memory to a whopping 20 Kilobyte)
Like many of the other folks in the comments I had to come see this creation because my very first computer was an MC-10. Learned BASIC on it and upgraded a year or two later to a Color Computer 2, and slowly added peripherals to it, including disk drive, Speech/Sound Cartridge, and the Direct Connect Modem Pack. Love your custom MC-10 laptop!
We are absolutely tickled with our little MC-10 baby. Glad you enjoyed it as well. 😊 Literally about to board the plane back to Memphis from Cocofest 23 and have even more Tandy goodness for the future.
Loving this latest instalment of Taylor & Amy madness - huge smile here and a big thank you. The next step is clearly going to be an appropriate laptop bag 😜 although I’m not entirely sure what that should be made of. Woven together strips of Meccano?
That's the coolest little thing I've seen in a long time. The sd32 on the back was a stroke of genius, and all done with lego and a bit of ironmungery. Keep on moding your systems, it's great fun to watch and you're doing a great job of it ;)
Lovely nonsense, nice work! I really want to see you guys in Starbucks with this and the ZX portable gaming away like its a totally normal thing to do 🤣
Awesome! And can't wait to see it in person at CocoFest next month. (Also, if you haven't already - grab all of the Inufuto MC-10 games too (I think that there are 11 so far). And... as proven by your test at the end of the video - you can take your MC-10 laptop camping now!
I was impressed with your use of Legos, but when you made your laptop truly portable, I was blown away! I hear that Rolls-Royce is making a small nuclear generator that you might be able to use to give you even more power. You may want to check into it. 😅
I love this build, it's amazing. I would probably flip the MCX device upside down so the pin headers were at the top to take up that extra slack and remove the need for a twist in the cable.
Hard to believe, but the MC-10 was my very first computer... because my dad couldn't afford a CoCo. The limitations were so big that he ended up getting one when I went to high school (but played games most of the time). This project is SO DAMN AWESOME! Thank you sp.much for doing it & your other MC-10 videos! Oh, you mentioned you're taking it to CoCofest or something? They're still around? Next you'll tell me Rainbow Magazine is back in print! :)
Now I can buy merch because when people ask me "what is the deal with the Taylor and Amy thing you got there?", I can tell them about the running in the front yard with a TRS-80 laptop. Thanks for doing the things I would be to lazy to do
I remember the MC-10. It was one of my early machines and it was soooo frustrating. Type too hard and the memory would move and kill the machine; save to tape, but half the time it would not load back... good times.
Love the vidz, just joined your channel, have u both tried the mame arcade emulator I'm making a bartop with all the classic 80s and 90s arcade games on it 👍
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the LE-10! (Lego Erector 10) If you can include more metal, steel, and some gears... it could be the Steampunk 5000!
It´s not true that this machine did not sell well. It did sell a lot, but in France where it shipped in red color and renamed ALICE. But 40 years ago we had no idea that it was in fact a rebranded failed american machine. You shoud try to import one from Europe, and mod it too. Your next mod should be to put that expansion device inside the case. After all, the machine is unsusable today without it.
And holy cow... could you imagine a Model II laptop? That would break your lap... and the chair you were sitting in at the same time. It might even drag you to the center of the earth.
@@fractalMD - There are a few dozen case types I've seen people custom build with quite a few of them making UA-cam videos out of them. One person repurposed an Amiga 500 case because they primarily wanted to use the Minimig (aka the Amiga) core. One guy designed a wedge case and 3D printed it. One guy used a repro Amiga case. Some have used ATX cases. It could basically be put inside of any retro computer case with enough effort. :) I myself have stuck with the fairly generic acrylic sandwich case as well as the Mulitisystem console-style 3D-printed case. The folks who make the Multisystem board/case also created and showed a demo of a handheld (think Nintendo Switch) case with a screen and battery. There have been so many case types, it is hard to keep up with them all. Since ya'll like the attached screen/keyboard laptop style, a MiSTer FPGA "laptop" seems like a natural fit. I think I saw someone repurpose and android phone shell laptop (where you put in a phone and it turns into a laptop) for a MiSTer but I couldn't find it again on a cursory search. If I had room in my house (and the extra needed $), I'd get one of the MiSTer JAMMA boards and stick it in a standup arcade system. Lots of people have done that. Then of course you'd need two of those... one for vertical games and one for horizontal games.
That's the craziest most inefficient use of time, materials, and energy in the history of the earth. My IQ has dropped having witnessed this experiment. Also, How much to do it to a TI-99/4A? LOL.
It's like a prop from an 80's sci fi movie, but in real life and working
I KNOW RAIT? Are you proud?
This is both a work of genius and a sign of madness at the same time.
So often those are the same thing, it's true.... 😅
Do it with EVERYTHING!!! Love!!! Also, this is why extension cords were invented. Taylor, you are an engineering genius!
GENIUS!!!
You ladies are so much fun to watch.
We were SO EXCITED to drop this video to share the idea!
My first computer directly from Radio Shack. So wish I still had it and the memory expansion pack. Bravo, this looks like a great project!
Thx!
I love that you used Lego pieces as part of your build! So cool! The portable generator at the end was a nice touch!
And the generator is appropriately called a "jackery."
Super video. I had a MC-10 when I was a teen in the early 80s. I learned BASIC programming on it and had to make all games and utils myselve, because there were only 2 tapes for sale at the local Tandy store with games. Good times. (I also bought the 16K memory expansion to expand the MC-10 total memory to a whopping 20 Kilobyte)
I mean, he is a good little guy! Go go MC10!
the MC10 is my favorite home computer hands down, thanks for giving it some special attention
It has a special place in our hearts, as well!
Like many of the other folks in the comments I had to come see this creation because my very first computer was an MC-10. Learned BASIC on it and upgraded a year or two later to a Color Computer 2, and slowly added peripherals to it, including disk drive, Speech/Sound Cartridge, and the Direct Connect Modem Pack. Love your custom MC-10 laptop!
We are absolutely tickled with our little MC-10 baby. Glad you enjoyed it as well. 😊 Literally about to board the plane back to Memphis from Cocofest 23 and have even more Tandy goodness for the future.
How DARE you drill holes in the doorstop?!!? I mean, this is about the most fantastic thing I've seen in months! Love it!
We upset fb a bit! 😅
That's excellent. You should be proud.
OMG it's Jim Gerrie! 😃
Taylor’s T-shirt is amazing! 🤩
Right??!!!!?
Pie Day earrings 🤗.
Aren't they the cutest?
Loving this latest instalment of Taylor & Amy madness - huge smile here and a big thank you. The next step is clearly going to be an appropriate laptop bag 😜 although I’m not entirely sure what that should be made of. Woven together strips of Meccano?
Just a series of those TI-994A PEB leather girths....
This is cool asf. Looks so fun to use and the legos give it personality! Kudos
I mean, if you can Legos, you should Legos.
That's the coolest little thing I've seen in a long time. The sd32 on the back was a stroke of genius, and all done with lego and a bit of ironmungery. Keep on moding your systems, it's great fun to watch and you're doing a great job of it ;)
We are kinda in love with it. Not gonna lie.
Lovely nonsense, nice work! I really want to see you guys in Starbucks with this and the ZX portable gaming away like its a totally normal thing to do 🤣
Sippin on my Chai tea latte.
Fantastic! As always, very impressive.
Thanks, Chris!
Awesome! And can't wait to see it in person at CocoFest next month. (Also, if you haven't already - grab all of the Inufuto MC-10 games too (I think that there are 11 so far). And... as proven by your test at the end of the video - you can take your MC-10 laptop camping now!
CAMPING LAPTOP!
It’s so cute and portable! 😂
SO! PORTABLE!
I was impressed with your use of Legos, but when you made your laptop truly portable, I was blown away! I hear that Rolls-Royce is making a small nuclear generator that you might be able to use to give you even more power. You may want to check into it. 😅
Rolls Royce? I dunno. Might not be fancy enough for this beauty. 😂
@@fractalMD 😂
+1 That is funny as all *hades* (Neil from the CDL at VCF)
Lol you guys are crazy! Love your videos.
Thanks! We can't argue with your logic.
I really enjoyed the video. Very creative solution. You got me thinking.
Oooh, you gonna make something?
@@fractalMD I have an MC 10 with the same video mod, I like the idea and might do something similar.
@@brianwieseler5938 do it!!
@@fractalMD I like the idea of making it portable
1:42 I did! Well, my parents did. I had one from new, with the thermal printer. It was my first computer.
Awesome
Love what you did with it top make into a laptop. Also you made it cooler to.
10% cooler AT LEAST
I love this build, it's amazing. I would probably flip the MCX device upside down so the pin headers were at the top to take up that extra slack and remove the need for a twist in the cable.
It's possible. Once you close it you kinda need the extra play.
Excellent suggestion, thank you. That totally worked.
Very well done!
Thank you!
There's an MC-10! And LEGO! So great!!!
All the best things!
Hard to believe, but the MC-10 was my very first computer... because my dad couldn't afford a CoCo. The limitations were so big that he ended up getting one when I went to high school (but played games most of the time).
This project is SO DAMN AWESOME! Thank you sp.much for doing it & your other MC-10 videos!
Oh, you mentioned you're taking it to CoCofest or something? They're still around? Next you'll tell me Rainbow Magazine is back in print! :)
Yep, CocoFest is still around, and still in the Chicago area. This year it's April 22-23. You should come out!
We will be there! Come say hi!
Now I can buy merch because when people ask me "what is the deal with the Taylor and Amy thing you got there?", I can tell them about the running in the front yard with a TRS-80 laptop. Thanks for doing the things I would be to lazy to do
Taylor and Amy Show, let us do it, so you don't have to!
Not the first computer I ever worked on but the first one I owned. I miss my little RC-10.
It's the bees knees!
I remember the MC-10. It was one of my early machines and it was soooo frustrating. Type too hard and the memory would move and kill the machine; save to tape, but half the time it would not load back... good times.
Now, you can have all those feelings.... on the go!
This is a great idea!
This channel deserves better than the crappiest webcam known to mankind. :'(
We accept donations! 😅
I was waiting for you to put a UPS in a backpack!!😂😂
Don't give us any ideas, Kudrav!
This is absurd... and I love it.
Perfect!
This is absolutely fantastic! You should try it with an Acorn Electron! Big love you sillys 💜
*adds acquire Acorn Electro to the to do list*
Best MC-10 Laptop episode ever!
I see what you did there 😆
That's pretty rad!
We are so happy about it!!!
Amazing!!!
No, you!
The design looks very ghostbuster-ish. I bet their car had one very similar looking comp.
This is the greatest compliment ever!
I love the use of Lego, but you really need a 3D printer to custom make a hinge assembly and "backpack" to hold a battery and additrional electronics.
I do lament our lack of a 3D printer.
Soooooo coooool! I want one!
We love it!
you are awesome lol fun stuff
No, you are!
love it
Hooray!
Nutters :) Well done. You guys always make me laugh. Good job. How about a C64 portable-II ?
Our new series: Will it laptop?
A true Cyberdeck!
Hardcore!
That was even more batty than Rutger Hauer's character in "Blade Runner"
Like tears in the rain...
I had one when they were new in 1982-1983
Noice.
Love the vidz, just joined your channel, have u both tried the mame arcade emulator I'm making a bartop with all the classic 80s and 90s arcade games on it 👍
We know of it, for sure. Welcome! Bartop idea sounds incredibly cool.
I want that rocket t-shirt!😃
Isn't it awesome???
@@fractalMD Yes it is, where did you get it from?
@@elyuw We were trying to remember. Huntsville or Houston, maybe. I know. Very unhelpful!
+1
!!!!!!!!!!! Rad !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tubular!
I don't really know why but it reminds me of the BTTF DeLorean.
COMPLIMENT ACCEPTED!
Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor, not a product designer!
🤣🤣🤣
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the LE-10! (Lego Erector 10)
If you can include more metal, steel, and some gears... it could be the Steampunk 5000!
Ready for some LARPing!
nutters :)
Indeed
Wow what a fun project! What are you going to do with it? :). Or was the journey of making in the most fun part?
It's DEFINITELY going to CoCoFest in April.
Bolt on a telephone and a camera, and you'll have an i-phone beater.
Easily!
It´s not true that this machine did not sell well. It did sell a lot, but in France where it shipped in red color and renamed ALICE. But 40 years ago we had no idea that it was in fact a rebranded failed american machine. You shoud try to import one from Europe, and mod it too.
Your next mod should be to put that expansion device inside the case. After all, the machine is unsusable today without it.
Oh yeah, we were just referring to in the states. We actually talk about ALICE briefly in another video. We'd love to get our hands on one. 😊
LEGO, of course! 😀
Always the correct answer.
Yes, I'll admit it's kinda cute.
I mean, you have to! Look at its preciousness.
LOL! It's so portable!
So.....gasp.....portable.
I think Sir Clive Sinclair bought his son Crispin a TRS-80...
I mean, had to have.
So what, laptop is now a verb? What are you going to laptop next? And yes, Go Lego
The new series is definitely: Will it laptop? 🤣
Let me know when you take an eMac or Molar Mac on a tour of the front yard. We’ll be sure to dial 91_ for you.
**starts working out**
Laptopomize everything!
**steals word**
A portmanteau of laptop and lobotomize?
@@bonemar66 Appropriate.
Amazing. Nabu luggable?
I need to get a pack mule involved at that point.
Now you just need a TRS-80 Model III laptop. It's just a stock TRS-80 Model III andoops I broke my lap
And every lap ever!
And holy cow... could you imagine a Model II laptop? That would break your lap... and the chair you were sitting in at the same time. It might even drag you to the center of the earth.
Now you need to build a MiSTer FPGA laptop. No. Seriously. :)
Oooooh
@@fractalMD - There are a few dozen case types I've seen people custom build with quite a few of them making UA-cam videos out of them. One person repurposed an Amiga 500 case because they primarily wanted to use the Minimig (aka the Amiga) core. One guy designed a wedge case and 3D printed it. One guy used a repro Amiga case. Some have used ATX cases. It could basically be put inside of any retro computer case with enough effort. :)
I myself have stuck with the fairly generic acrylic sandwich case as well as the Mulitisystem console-style 3D-printed case. The folks who make the Multisystem board/case also created and showed a demo of a handheld (think Nintendo Switch) case with a screen and battery. There have been so many case types, it is hard to keep up with them all.
Since ya'll like the attached screen/keyboard laptop style, a MiSTer FPGA "laptop" seems like a natural fit. I think I saw someone repurpose and android phone shell laptop (where you put in a phone and it turns into a laptop) for a MiSTer but I couldn't find it again on a cursory search.
If I had room in my house (and the extra needed $), I'd get one of the MiSTer JAMMA boards and stick it in a standup arcade system. Lots of people have done that. Then of course you'd need two of those... one for vertical games and one for horizontal games.
@@lsdowdle This is like 37 great ideas in one comment.
😂😂😂😂😂
Can y'all make me one?
We barely made this one!
@@fractalMD But I really wanted to play my Canyon Climber cartridge 😞
@@Prime-1111X come to cocofest!
@amy I just looked up the information. First time hearing about the event, I'll be there!
@@Prime-1111X Oh hell yes!
That's the craziest most inefficient use of time, materials, and energy in the history of the earth. My IQ has dropped having witnessed this experiment. Also, How much to do it to a TI-99/4A? LOL.
With or without the PEB? 🤣
@@fractalMD with. Put it inside of a backpack.
Its soooooo tiny!
Preciousness