points by imzadi 5 days ago | 0 comments
My first home computer was a Tandy 2000, that's how old I am. It functioned for about 4 months.
[–] ethersteeds 5 days ago
Tandy 1000 RLX crew representing!
[–] Vrondi 5 days ago
My Tandy 1000 still works.
[–] carrja99 5 days ago
lol Tandy color computer 3 for me
[–] godshatter 5 days ago
I still have my Color Computer I in a box somewhere in the garage, with the original large cassette tape player I used to read and write cassette tapes with. I've probably forgotten exactly what volume I had to keep it at to get it to read the tapes. As a dumb kid, I managed to get the keyboard swapped out (hated the chiclet one it came with), and I think I found someone who swapped out the 16K it came with for (iirc) 128K. I should really see if it boots. Or even turns on.
[–] HeyLaughingBoy 5 days ago
I don't think the CoCo I could be expanded beyond 32k since that's as many address lines as they brought out to the bus. When I worked for Alpha Products/Colorware, we sold a MacPaint clone for the CoCo2 that required 64k.
CoCo3 came with 128k out the box though.
[–] godshatter 4 days ago
I could easily be misremembering. I know it was a CoCo I, so it must have been 32k instead.
[–] pohl 5 days ago
[–] HeyLaughingBoy 5 days ago
At my first job, we used Model I's for testing hardware. Since we were live-plugging I/O boards into the bus to test quickly, we'd occasionally kill one (they were surprisingly robust, though). No matter: there was a shelf full of them because the owner bought a pallet at a garage sale.
If I had known there was a floppy for it, I'd have asked for one. Our BASIC test code had to be typed back in if there was a power failure, or we had to get a "new" one off the shelf.