LGR - Tandy 1000 RL/HD Retro Computer Review
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Review from the perspective of a somewhat casual collector: is the 1000 series worth collecting today? A run-down of the history, pros and cons of the systems and games, what to look for and be aware of when buying. The PCjr may have failed, but Tandy? Tandy ruled.
There are functions I wanted to talk about but ran out of time, like the ability to run in Hercules mode, further Deskmate and TL-related features and the upgrade options, but alas. Lots more information and troubleshooting at:
www.oldskool.or...
LHX Attack Chopper
Lemmings
Out Run
Thexder Firehawk
Zeliard
Arkanoid
Also check out the Maxis games of the time, the Tandy versions are spectacular - SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt etc
Thanks to Yushatak for the Tandy!
/ yushatak
Here I am on UA-cam, watching a "vintage computer system review," that is itself now vintage. Isn't the Internet grand?
Blows marijuana smoke onto the screen
Even more vintage for me. 11 years ago, sheesh!
I purchased this machine when I was 16 or 17. It was new then. I just purchased it again in 2021 about 30 years later. Now, I am on UA-cam owning a vintage PC, watching a review on a vintage machine, the review is now vintage and your comment is also now vintage. :) :) :)
I know this video was done over seven years ago, but I just wanted to say. You have summed up the production & the special options of the Tandy line of 1000's extremely well. Being a part of Radio Shack for some time (Store Manager). I was there when the 1000's made history by out selling all other computers. It was why Radio Shack was a Fortune 500 company for many years. It was a very happy time for me, so much so I have dedicated a large portion of my upstairs to a Tandy Computer Museum.
That is awesome, and thank you :)
@@LGR I remember how exciting it used to be to go to Radio Shack and see the latest video game releases.
I can remember searching Tandy stores hours on end for all that stuff I couldn't afford, and then leaving with a red radio shack flashlight that I could.
3 more years later.....it's 2020. :)
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The 1000RL-HD is my favorite vintage PC. It's amazing how far Tandy was able to miniaturize its components -- it doesn't even need a fan, because it's basically built like a laptop inside. It's also worth noting that the RL/SL/TL series has improved IBM compatibility, whereas some games refuse to work properly on the older 1000s due to the different keyboard layout.
I remember my Dad having to drag me out of Radio Shack at the mall in the 80's because I didn't wanna stop playing with the Tandys
I recall a seeing and being impressed by a demo PC, maybe a Tandy, that had some kind of game demo running. It was something for DOS that had a very pixelated yet smoothly animated character. I seem to recall he was lying by a campfire. I was only familiar with the graphics on the Apple II and the Mac at the time, both of which are very different to those DOS VGA graphics.
I remember when the Tandy 1000 series came out. While not outrageously expensive, it wasn't cheap. What really pushed the budget into the stratosphere where the peripherals and software.
They worked well but were financially out of reach for most.
I was 20 when all this stuff started happening and had no way of affording such tech.
In a way, it was a godsend for me that I couldn't afford a good PC until 1998. I did get a Vic 20 and Commodore 64 while going to school, but I still couldn't afford all the peripherals that came with them. The only peripheral I could afford was a tape data drive... LOL!
In the 80s and most of the 90s, tech moved along so fast, you had to be rich just to keep up. I'm so glad that in 2017, I can purchase a PC and not worry it'll be obsolete in the next 6 months...
Dick slap the state
I was born in 1991 and all I had until 2000s was a Commodore C64.
And this thing had real music editing tools and could record and edit audio! Mind-boggling!
8:17 Annihilating a camel with a chopper.
xiaochicash One of the best features of LHX.
Your review inspired me. I watched this review when it first came out weeks ago and since I've shifted my vintage collection to include Tandy 1000 series machines. I absolutely love them! A TL/2 paired up with a CM-11 monitor is a thing of beauty...
And, thanks to your Zeliard review I have discovered a "new" game I never played back in the day...
Thank you for being awesome!
Back in the day when "HD" didn't just stand for "High Definition" lol.
My first computer was a 1000TL that my grandfather gave me! I still have it to this day.
10.5 years after this video was published, watching thinking about how my grandparents felt that it was better to stoke the imagination than to shun technology that they didn't understand...we had TRS-80s in my grade school (what's an Apple II?) and the next step up was the 1000 series. We went to a Radio Shack in a new strip mall that was built and my grandparents let me check out all the computers and I decided on the 1000RL (no HDD). It's interface and file explorer were very unique for someone that was used to Basic and early DOS file exploring. The disks that came with it were 6 or so operating system and program files...without these disks you were screwed. I had a hard time finding compatible software (mainly because everyone had Commodores) on 3.5" disks and often relied on searching through computer show tables and bins looking for "Tandy Compatible" games. Outrun was a game I copied from someone in school and my other favorite game was some type of doctor/surgeon game where the copyright protection was tied to a pager with spinning disks that gave phone numbers to call from a desk in the hospital once you got a page (call doctor XYZ at location C) - if you got it wrong, it would close the game. Not that the game was easy by any means... I even bought a 2400 baud modem for it and got it to connect to Prodigy once in a while...
Overall, I used that thing mainly as a word processor and tooled around with the sound programs from end of elementary school and throughout high school until I saved enough money in 1996 to get myself a Pentium 66 PC.
Thanks for the great rundown of Tandy machines. I was always way into building my own PCs back then but never paid attention to Tandy or PCjr. It's interesting to finally find out about them. I also enjoyed your GameBlaster review because, other than the 3 voice Tandy/PCjr sound, it's practically the only card I never owned! Good choices of games, too.
i love your computer reviews. they aren't gimmicky and are chalked full of awesome information and history. keep up the good work!
I had Tandy 1000 Serial #936! I ran a BBS in Santa Rosa, CA on it for years back in the day! I have another one waiting in the garage for my son to move out so I can have an office!
Promoting it as an MS-DOS compatible machine was a brilliant move! Because MS-DOS is awesome!
This is an excellent video. I learned a lot and could not stop being impressed by the quality of it. After seeing so many shabby / poorly put together vids, I can truly say this is one of the best. The cutscenes & audio showcasing this classic computer are movie quality. No doubt someone's labor of love. What a nice gift to find on this Valentine's day morning 2012!
dude thanks for the awesome review dude. It's great seeing young folks digging in. No plug and play and you had to know your stuff. Even the TL/2 was mind wracking. entire weekends spend getting Chuck Yeager Air Combat to run. expensive too. a new TL2 with CM5 monitor was over $2200!!! great reviews guy!
I now need to start doing some more stuff with my Tandy 1000 SX, which now has a permanent home. I just wish I could find a way to hook a CF card up to it to make transferring games to it much simpler. Disks are great, but I only have but so many and so many games just won't fit on a disk. But it's such a cool machine and I look forward to seeing what it's capable of.
Only way I know to do that easily is with an XT-IDE adapter, and best of luck finding one for a good price! I've been looking for years and they're getting tougher to track down.
And all Tandy products come strongly endorsed by the Tandy Computer Wiz Kids!
Great upload! This is very nostalgic. I'm 38 now and still have the original Tandy 1000 that our mom bought for us around 1986. I enjoyed playing Lode Runner, using Desk Mate, and playing Outrun and Flight Simulator on it. I also used Basic to program all kinds of stuff.
My how computers have changed!
Minor correction, the 1000 RL-HD didn't come with 768K. It shipped with 512K. If yours has 768K, it's because the owner got more chip RAM from Radio Shack. Very easy upgrade, you just unscrew the cover and install it.
I don't recall whether the RLs had ISA slots. The HXes definitely didn't. If you wanted an internal modem, you had to buy it from Tandy because ISA cards couldn't be installed to the proprietary Tandy slots.
The RL-HD has a daughter card with the sound hardware on it, and does native wavetable synthesis with system RAM. Upgrading that to 768K gets you a longer maximum time for recording audio. I don't remember how many channels the wavetable synth could handle, but it might have been four. I think it was mono. DeskMate's bundled music software came with a pretty good set of samples and songs, which were composed with a standard sheet music-style interface. The wavetable synth gave the system the ability to play .mod-like music, although I don't know if anyone ever wrote an actual .mod player for it.
The system was advanced enough to run MS-DOS 6.22, and you could use DoubleSpace (later renamed DriveSpace) to wring more out of the 20MB drive.
One question, if I get a Tandy, can I type on it with boxing gloves on my hands?
***** mhm
BEHOLD the 386! A spectacle of graphics and sound!
yes just not well
8088
No, you have to have a Compy.
Face melted. Born and bred on B-Series mainframes, the TRS-80 was the first home computer I remember. Holy crap... time to shop.
My first was the Ti-99/4a. I still have it and all the educational games.
Niiiice!
My first PC computer was a 486/66. Pretty much everyone had C64/Amiga around here at the time so it's fun to see the stuff I missed out on.
... and I'm not losing sleep over it.
Shades of my childhood. Our first family computer was a Tandy 1000EX. My introduction to DOS, Sierra's classics like King's Quest & Space Quest III. 3-channel sound & 16-color 'Tandy' Graphics ftw! :D
This is so awesome, my first computer was a 1000TL. I have many fond memories of playing Wing Commander and Ultima VI on it
Holy cow, how did I miss this one?! I used to play cribbage with my grandfather on one of those Tandy 1000's. Good memories.
My friend used to down a Tandy computer and we used to spend days playing with it lol. It's good to see a well respected review on a great computer (at the time) Keep up the great work!
Between my CoCo 2 and my Tandy 1000 (ST and TL models), this summed up my computing experience as a young teen. Loved my Tandy 1000 and my Sierra adventure games (alongside Thexder and Silpheed)
oh man, Tandy's PCB edge printer ports, I was a radio shack general manager in the late 2000s and we sold those centronics to tandy printer cables all the way up to 2007, and there was in fact demand for them; a lot of schools and CNC machines used Tandys
Love that old LGR stuff. That intro is legendary
I had a Tandy 1000 plenty of great old games and also early DeskMate. It was my first computer, my grandfather bought in for himself in 1985 and gave it to me when I was 9 or 10. Somewhere along the way I also got a Tandy 1000 EX with GEM. A friend of mine had a later 286 Tandy HD with the slicker mouse driven DeskMate.
I never owned a Tandy but I have fond memories of going into Radio Shack and mucking around with the display machines.
Do you think this review holds up? Would you recommend a Tandy 1000 today? :)
I absolutely would, especially one of the HD models like this one! They're a great machine for enhanced 80's DOS gaming.
Sweet, I noticed one in Dallas I could theoretically go pick up and yep, it's an HD model. Thanks for the quick response, great video! :)
+Lazy Game Reviews Lucky find the Tandy 1000 RL I have the TX/SX/TL models hope to find the RL one day along with a broken HX or TX mine is missing keys and the base has rust.
Do you know if it is true about the dual boot mode so i can use it in 4mhz mode for old XT games.
+J Limon Yes it is the best choice for Retro gaming seeing as it is like owning a IBM XT AT and Pcjr. Cost is great to as of now until people start getting more into them.
Michelle L Thanks so much! I'm going to keep an eye out for one! :)
Just got my first Tandy out of a recycling shop and fixed it up a little bit. Runs very fast and it is pretty much my DOS gaming box. Person left the floppy disk disconnected, reconnected it, tested it, and it runs just fine.
My grandpa has one of the original models, I can't wait to get a chance to check it out
I have a TRS-80 model 100 i use every now and then to take notes on in school. And I am thinking of getting a RL since they seem to play a lot of the dos games I like. Great review, not a lot of people do old PC reviews.
I absolutely loved this computer as a kid. It was my first home computer. I loved it enough to keep it set up all the way into the late 90s in the study even with my Windows 98 machine in my room. I loved playing Microsoft Flight Sim (we had a joystick), Ford Simulator (pretty much a playable ford ad that was an arcade racing game), 3D Battle Chess, some math and learning games (can't remember the names but they were really fun), some sort of Hot Rod drag racing game where you could customize the car engines and stuff, and a bunch of other stuff. Played in the Draw program a lot too, and I remember there being another coloring program on disk, and you can't forget "Tandyman" lol. We had the joystick, mouse, dot matrix printer, and I think a modem with it (but I never used that). DeskMate OS, and at least one of ours (the one I used) had the built in hard drive (20 MB I think). We still have two Tandy 1000 systems stored away at my parent's place.
Great review Clint, I do remember seeing these machines but NEVER actually playing them... ahhh!
i have just come across your channel and omg so freaking awesome. I love old school tech stuff.
I don't understand why your videos aren't more popular. They're of very high quality (although the video quality itself seems like it came from a VHS camcorder, but that's OK), obviously take quite some time to make, despite being done by a lazy reviewer, and are always fun to watch.
BTW that armchair looks really comfortable.
Good luck getting any of that for $10.00 on Ebay now.
Everytime I search for a Tandy computer on eBay it's anywhere from 200 dollars to 500 dollars.
Cool vid. I met you and your channel about 4 months ago and just going through your back log. My in-laws told me they had a Tandy machine, I want to get one for them, (or for me), but I'm still trying to narrow down with them which model they exactly had. I think this video will help, so thanks!!!
The earlier 1000's had an edge connector for the parallel port, just like the TRS-80. Deskmate was a character mode interface, using the extended IBM character set of graphics like characters. I had access to the SDK back in the day, but I never made anything for it.
Thanks for this awesome walktrough of old computers.
Hard to fathom that my telephone has more than 10 to the 6. x the memory of your old Tandy machine.. Getting hit by a bit of nostalgia here - I remember playing really old car games back when I was so young only few people had computers. In particular I remember the choppy 'tone-by-tone' engine sounds :) Ah, and Lemmings.. The music was just awesome. Haha @the midi - that was Bach's invention No. 8 - I used to play that ;)
Man, you're a total monster computer reviewer of the entire UA-cam.
My dad had a Tandy 1000 SL in the early 90's. I still remember playing Hangman on Deskmate, as well as games like Chuck Yeager's Air Combat. Quite a capable machine that I used to use, in conjunction with a super fast 9600baud modem, to go BBS'ing. My dad later got a 486SX 25mhz machine with Super VGA graphics. But until then, the Tandy was king in the house.
I still remember Tandy's ...at the time I could not possibly afford any of these but they were regarded as very good systems alongside the Amiga for music sequencing.
Excellent review! So much nostalgia... My first real PC was the Tandy 1000 EX with its whopping 256K RAM and 360K floppy drive. I desperately wanted to go 640K RAM but the expansion was just too much to afford at the time - played so many great games on it (King's Quest series, Amiga ports, etc.). The 3-voice sound chip produced amazing sound - way better than the standard bleep-type you still hear today. I miss that old PC. I am subscribed - great job :)
Thanks brought back memories of using the Tandy computer at Radio shack at my local mall. I would go by and stay there the whole time while my parents were shopping. When they come get me then say what are you doing this whole time and I would say I need this computer I never got one I got the Coleco Adam instead.
My grandmother had one of these machines (an RL model, I think, with a hard drive added later). I still think fondly of Deskmate, even though it's directory handling was lacking. It's keyboard control was excellent, IMO, especially the use of the arrow keys to move between elements, and the assignment of the menus to the function keys is still my favourite feature. It also had a music composition program, simply called "music", that, while clunky by today's standards, I was quite fond of.
Man, I really appreciate these videos as a breif-ish introduction to classic computer and gaming systems. I grew up in the 90s' but wasn't allowed to play video games very much. The games that we did have were considered cheap out-dated junk at the time, but as retro gaming seems to gain more wide-spread appeal, I'm reminded of some of my great old memories. Time to look for a video on classic 5 1/2 inch loppy based Atari computers.
The 5.25" floppy disk drive on the side at 1:28 looks funny but cool
now i wish my original 1000 still worked. played the hell out of that thing when i was a kid. lots of fond memories of thexder
ohh, I also almost fell off my couch when I saw the chair you had the computers setting on. We had the WHOLE living room suite of those including the chair at our house in Burgin Kentucky in the 80's WOW!
I remember my first computer was a tx1000. I had formatted the startup disk for deskmate and my father was coming home. Well jumped through some hoops found a friend and copied his and that was my introduction into computer repair
Some other computer like Tandy. Always have so many rams to their memory. Now we some powerful computer with inter net and others. What a history
those game sounds are so pleasing through my headphones
My first Intel CPU PC was a 1000 RLX/HD. It was a beautiful machine and I have very fond memories of DeskMate and playing Carmen Sandiego, Lemmings and learning to program in BASIC... after using my school's TI-99/4A, it was like going from a '70s Honda Civic to the Space Shuttle!
It absolutely crushed me that Microsoft Windows would *technically* run on a 286... but Windows wouldn't load because it required a certain amount of extended memory, and my machine fell 64K short. To this day I don't know why... but it simply refused to run.
Thanks for the feels, man. My famly had a TL and after a few years I did eventually learn how to do some fun(-ish) stuff.
Great info! Never had a Tandy but have been getting more interested in them so this video was very informative/helpful!
My Dad had a Tandy 1000. I loved playing King's Quest, Ghostbusters, F-15 Strike Eagle and BC's Quest for Tires!
It's a nice computer for the time but at the same time if gaming was the priority I'd rather go for the Amiga 500. It was cheaper and had better graphics and sound.
Well said my friend. Amiga Master Race =)
You mean Amiga master subrace right?
The PC Master Race can span multiple computers, so it would be logical to put Amiga etc. users in a sub category.
My friend had an A500. I was jelly. Definitely a better computer.
In response to the subrace/subcategory comments, I disagree strongly. I also don't think the Mac counts that way either, now nor then. Amiga was its own platform, and its users were arguing with PC and other platform users (esp ST) in the same way as PS4 vs XBONE vs Switch vs PC now. Back in the 80s, the Amiga was far superior and the PC (or IBM as we called it) was definitely nowhere near as good for gaming and for everything other than compatibility with specific popular business software. By 90/91, the PC (only when decked out with a 386SX-and-up CPU and VGA and a Sound Blaster) was able to share top status with the Amiga, with each having their superior traits and types of software and games. Starting in 1992, the AGA Amigas shared that status with the PC, and by 1996, the PC, with Windows 95 and a Pentium with PCI 3D accelerator, was superior in general to the Amiga from a practical standpoint. The Amiga still bested the PC (and Mac) in certain specific ways (mostly OS-related, CPU ISA [compared to x86], and NTSC/PAL compatibility), but that was irrelevant for what most folks cared about, for business, media/creative production, *and* gaming.
Great video. The 1000 RL was my first computer. I wish I knew all that about it back then. For instance most of the time I was only using CGA. Also, some models originally shipped with 512k ram and had to be upgraded to 768k, like mine. Of course it didn't help that I found that most games needed at least 720k to do Tandy graphics mode when I did figure it out.
I remember my 1000 RLX like it was yesterday. Ahhh yes, no hard drive (though there was a 20MB and 40MB available), and with the Ram upgrade, I could run wolfenstein in a medium sized window, at a respectable frame rate. Games like Commander Keen ran great! I loved the sound manipulation and Midi support. I used both heavily. I then moved on to the Tandy Sensation II 486SX/33, which later got pimped out with a DX4/100, Soundblaster, and a WD 1GB drive. That machine still works to this day! Even the monitor stand speakers with subwoofer.
Hahhaha, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 RLX, massive 40mb hard drive.
40megabytes! thats HUGE
yobeefjerky
More than enough for the most hard core gamer.
You had a hard drive! Must have been a one percenter
@@yobeefjerky42 more storage than anybody will ever need!
ohhh tandy 1000 and deskmate. we had the RLX machine long after its prime and I learned a lot of ways to make a computer not work correctly with that machine... gotta learn somewhere haha. your sacrifice did not go to waste tandy.
Sound graphical sample editing in 1981. Impressive. A noble cause general.
I had one of these with a 286 processor and no hard drive. I didn't know much back then and someone tried to sell me a 20MB MFM hard drive and I thankfully didn't waste my $125 that I had saved up. It was a good little machine. Oh, LHX was a great game!
When I was around 10 years old, I liked to go to the local Radio Shack and play "Thexder" on the Tandy computer. Eventually some guy kicked me off because I was a little kid. I probably knew more about computers than he did. :)
When I was a kid I had a Tandy TRS 80 Color Computer 2 and I was happy with the games and graphics, I thought it couldn't get any better then I remember walking into Radio Shack and for the first time I saw a Tandy Color Computer 3 that was set up demoing and I was like WoOo look at how much better the graphics are on that computer compared to mine! I wanted it but my parents wasn't about to spend that kind of money, looking back I can't blame them.
What computer you had before you got a Tandy Color Computer?
Muscle Studios The TRS 80 Color Computer 2 was the first computer for me.
Awesome! What would you do on this first computer?
Well back then I would mainly play games like Downland, Mega Bug and some others I can't remember the names. That computer came with a thick paper back program book with different types of programs you can type line by line depending on witch 1 you wanted to try or run, the only program I can remember doing from the book was a dancing block looking guy with some kind of music, lol. That computer wasn't powerful so there wasn't much you could do compared to today's machines but for the time it was a o.k. machine.
I had a Tandy 1000 EX growing up. My parents bought one used for cheap in the early 90's used though my dad got more use out of it than I did. I was 9 at the time and I had a really tough time figuring out DOS.
Wow, what an amazing hardware!
LHX Attack Chopper looks so advanced for its time. :D
brings back memories, when i was a kid, my dad got a 1000TL and i used to record stuff. and i miss the DeskMate OS. so awesome!
thanks for making videos like this. Long times when I was a kid there use to be these in radio shack but my family was too poor to purchase one. nice to know how it would haved worked
I was an Amiga guy back then, but must admit that these machines were very sweet. In fact, I worked at Radio Shack in late 80s and Tandy games were enhanced before VGA took off.
My first computer was the original Tandy 1000. DOS 2.5. I remember having hours of fun with a very primitive port of Frogger, the ALF addition and subtraction games, Clock Works, and Money Works (the latter two published by MECC). Yes, I also played the first version of Ford Simulator. Too bad that my mom gave it away 15 years ago...I would've had more fun with it today.
I had one of these as a kid. Would love another one
I was one of those poor sobs stuck with an IBM PCjr! lol. I was always disappointed with the performance of that thing, and after seeing so many "Tandy 1000 Compatible" lines on the back of game boxes, I always dreamed of what it must be like to have a Tandy, where all my games would run at full speed. Never got to try one.
But i suppose I was lucky to have anything, and at least I could still play Wizardry and Boulderdash II, and Castle Wolfenstein... anything that didn't look too pretty :D And I liked just learning to program and use DOS back then. It's not all about the games (though video games *are* awesome).
Incidentally, most of the games demoed on the RL I had on the EX and they ran just as well as shown on the RL. Digger in particular was one of my favorite games, along w/ Zeliard & Thexder (Both of which, I had gotten from a boxset of games that Sierra released back then that also included Oil's Well).
I love the ability to record and edit sound. Totally awesome.
Just dawned on me that I use to have the 1000 EX.
Was too young to understand that I could use my TV but thinking back I loved my yellow and black monitor :P
Question about the parallel port being output only. Even the original PC parallel port which was unidirectional, did allow external drives like HD's, CD-ROM, or Zip disks via a 4-bit nibble mode of the status registers. Though not very fast, it's still faster than the floppy drives. Could that not be done on the Tandy?
I can say I was lucky to get a working RL for $75 off a local eBay seller, and the pistol grip joystick for another $20 (which works great on the CoCo 3 as well). Definitely worth it. Plus, with an MCE2VGA or RGB2HDMI, you can even do then correct CGA composite colors for the older games.
Clint, I just wanted to thank you for making this review, after watching it I scooped myself a Tandy 1000 HX, now I just need a memory expansion "PLUS" card so I can play some games :D
Nice review! Your voice has improved a lot!! as well your style for describing the machines.
I'd love to see you do a TRS-80 review. My first computer ever was The Tandy CoCo3
upgraded to 512k.I learned to read playing text based adventures on it and I learned basic on that thing before I could even really print.
Then I got a Tandy1000hd given to me with the Tandy colour and mono monitors.
That thing was the bomb.
I had a 1000RLX and out of the several different computers I had it was the only one that came with built in software allowing one to make music with realistic sounding instruments.
Tandy I believe were way ahead of the competition in a lot of respects.
Had Tandy just kept up doing things that nobody else was really doing I suppose they would still be making computers.
They even had their own OS while for the most part being fully IBM compatible.
Also I think it or maybe a later Tandy would play the PC speaker audio through the sound card as well. Don't know of any other computer from then through now that can do that without some program running to send the pc speaker audio to the sound card.
Wow, LHX Attack Chopper brings back some memories.
And yes, LHX was one of my favorite games of that era as well! Not as good as Gunship 2000, but I still had a lot of fun with it.
I always heard of the Tandy 1000, but I never actually saw one in action before!
The Tandy 1000 RLX was my first computer. I loved the original civilization game, just not the multitude of disks and hours to create the world. LHX Attack Chopper was the shiite too.
LOL at these comments!
Personally I'm finding Phreak's UA-cam presentations great value for money. I like the laconic style - doesn't take himself too seriously or anything - he's funny and the reviews are honest and well thought through.
Keep it up, mate. I'm personally gonna pimp you and your channel all over the place.
Tandy was never even noticeable in Europe, so i never heard of it, but now i know where IBM/Tandy compatibles comes from.. :)
I love these reviews of old systems.
lhx attack chopper is one of my all time favorite pc games
We had an old Tandy for years and years - I have no idea what the model was; but I do know it had a 10MB hard drive built in. I'm sure it was a fantastic business machine for it's time (my dad bought it in 1987 for an amount of money that I find utterly ridiculous); but I always thought it was kind of a pile of junk for gaming.
We did have some golden oldies like Sopwith and Striker and I always loved finding new, funny ways to fail in Summer Games; but in the end, we mostly just used it for playing things like MUDs and other text/ANSI based games on the local BBSes. Still, I do have a weird nostalgia for it.
I worked at Radio Shack from 89 to 96. I sold many of those 1000 RL computers when they were a thing.
This was my first computer, thanks for posting this
I really miss this intro.