#Tandy

2025-05-29

#JDOS does not work on my #CoCo3 it should but doesn't. I am going to try and change that! #RetroComputer #Tandy youtu.be/FqGSoMhNEhc

Volt Siliconvoltsilicon
2025-05-25

Lemmings, a 1991 puzzle-strategy game by DMA Design and Psygnosis, tasks you with guiding anthropomorphized lemmings through hazardous levels to an exit, utilizing eight unique skills to overcome obstacles and save a required percentage of the creatures. The memorable and often quirky soundtrack was composed by Tim Wright.

youtube.com/watch?v=8SZGRSPXvw0

2025-05-25

does anyone that I’m connected to #repair old TRS-80 Color Computers (or is connected to anyone who does) & is based even vaguely anywhere near #Canberra? (or within plausible shipping distance)

I wish to exchange $$ for goods & services to put the #MagicBlueSmoke back into my beloved old #CoCo1… 😢

#boost4reach pls 🙏

#RetroComputing
#RetroGaming
#TRS80
#TRS80CoCo
#ColorComputer
#Tandy
#TandyCoCo

The Last Psion | Alexthelastpsion@oldbytes.space
2025-05-10

Managed to work out how to get into this #Tandy Z-PDA "Zoomer". I haven't found any photos of the insides of this thing online yet.

Unfortunately this one seems to have had some hidden battery leakage, but it seems to be restricted to the speaker and wires for the battery. Everything else looks in good condition.

It can take an external PSU, but I can't find any details on it (voltage, polarity).

Also, it runs #GEOS.

#retrocomputing #pda

2025-05-10
This #colorful TRS-80 #retrocomputer came with extented #ColorBASIC, a
Motorola 6809E CPU @1.79MHz and up to half a Megabyte of RAM. See our #Tandy #RadioShack #M3 #graphics for general sales details, but this early Color Computer earned his nickname #CoCo much more than #LISA.

Of course, our #vectorgraphics are made in #SVG with #FreeSoftware like #Inkscape, not #Adobe #Illustrator #Ai #SaaS scams. The dynamic perspective is taken from a photo made by the Computer #History #Museum, Slovenia. That's why their cute robot is implemented, too. @muzej@mastodon.social
Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 CoCo Model 1 retro-computer vector graphics made with Inkscape
2025-05-08

What do you *kids* remember?

#GoodMorning #Bonjour It's #ThrowbackThursday

Remember when AOL sent everyone a free Beer Coaster?
#TBT Red Storm Rising #Gaming #MicroProse #Tandy

Did you ever brag about owning a Tandy? 😆

a black square plastic plate, with a red label on the front and a metal plate at the bottom. The label reads, RED STORM RISING, IBM PC/XT/AT & Compatibles Tandy, 1000/3000, MICROPROSE 180 Lakefront Drive, Hut Valley, Maryland, 21030 (Tiny print WARNING... MicroProse software is copy-protected.. tampering of any kind with the diskette may result in damage to your software program and may invalidate your warranty. Copyright 1989
2025-05-04

Here are photos inside the TRS-80 RS-232 switcher (previously posted). C2 certainly needs some attention 🧐

#Tandy #RadioShack #TRS80 #RS232 #261499 #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

2025-05-03

New phone for the retro lounge came today! The Modemfone 100… can’t wait to hear it ring! #retrocomputing #Tandy #telecom

Bits&Terminal Jeffjf_718@oldbytes.space
2025-05-02

Of all the platforms that had success in the 1980s but eventually died off without descendants, the ST Line from Atari is the one I wish would have known even more success. Being able to read/write PC floppies and having a UI not that far off from the Mac at a very low price (for 1985) meant it deserved a better fate, especially when it beat the affordable version of the Amiga by two years.

Still blaming Tandy for that one; creating an affordable PC jr. clone shaped like a PC and able to use much of the same hardware meant budget buyers flocked to the ubiquitous Radio Shack stores in the US instead of taking a chance on a potentially impressive computer from a company known for gaming.

#AtariST #Amiga #Tandy

2025-05-02

Picked-up this beefy, oversized RS-232 switcher from the 80s that costs over $400 when adjusted for inflation! 🤑

#Tandy #RadioShack #TRS80 #RS232 #261499 #BatteryCard #The80s #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

2025-05-01

Does anyone know how the Blue Color Control bit works on Tandy 1000 TGA graphics?

Does it replace the blue bit after reading the palette register, or does it clear the bit if it's not set?

The tech reference is a bit unclear on this.

#retrocomputing #tandy

2025-05-01

All the Adventures visits the Tandy Color Computer and the game Enchanted Forest, which uses a rare-for-the-time directional-graphics style which only became popular for adventure games after Myst.

bluerenga.blog/2025/04/30/ench

#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #textadventure #interactivefiction #tandy #trs80coco

Tandy Color Computer screenshot of a "wood nymph"
2025-04-29
World's first mass-market #laptop was the #T1100 computer by #Toshiba. Introduced with a 4.77MHz #CPU, 512KB of #RAM, #monochrome #LCD display, and battery capacity up to 7 hours, it changed the world of #IBM compatible portable computers. It even worked with #MS #Windows1 in 640x200px #CGA #graphics, but only within a narrow view angle https://youtu.be/qk04sDF5SrM

Even without a hard disk this machine was very important, since the plus model was re-engineered in #USSR as Электроника #МС1504. Unlike #US, users in #Russia didn't pay royalties, or used the internal 3.5" floppy drive to boot #MS-DOS 2.11 https://youtu.be/_u5LwiP5Q4g

Our #graphic #illustration is a tribute to this #IT #milestone, celebrating the 40th #anniversary of this historic #microcomputer achievement in 1985. See it in comparison of #ComputerChronicles to #Tandy or #Dynamac #laptops two years later https://youtu.be/tPEMilDYpgY

The #screenshot of this #retrocomputer #cgi #art shows #SVG #vector #outlines around the cursor in #xRay view-mode. Made with #Inkscape and #FreeSoftware
Screenshot of Toshiba T1100 laptop computer illustration created in SVG with Inkscape
Retro Techieretro_techie
2025-04-06

DeskMate 2 - Tandy’s GUI of the 80s (before Windows 3.1) for their computers sold at RadioShack

Bits&Terminal Jeffjf_718@oldbytes.space
2025-04-05

My table at #VCFEast - well, my table at consignment anyway. Multiple people (like me) brought stuff this evening, so there will be new things to buy tomorrow (it's been difficult resisting, there was a lot of cool stuff today and I expect I'll take a look again tomorrow).

I do feel a bit sad of letting that Tandy CM-5 go, I hope someone will have fun using it.

#retroComputing #appleII #Tandy

CGA CRT monitor, 5x4 17" LCD monitor, many joysticks and gamepads, commodore manuals and datasette, multiple apple II and PC cards in mylar bags.
2025-03-28

40 years ago this month:
BIG K magazine’s READERS POLL 1984 RESULTS
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #Atari #VIC20 #MSX #Dragon32 #BBCmicro #Tandy #Amstrad

2025-03-28

40 years ago this month:
BIG K magazine No.12
…now incorporating TV Gamer magazine
And still only 85p.
#Commodore64 #C64 #ZXSpectrum #Atari #VIC20 #MSX #Dragon32 #BBCmicro #Tandy

Well, it's not like Tandy was doing anything useful with that trademark...

#electronics #breadboard #Tandy #RadioShack #Sorny #Sayno #knockoff #Chinesium

A scan of a small electronics breadboard, which you solder components and wires to to prototype a circuit after initial experimentation but before production.

There is a brand name printed on the top of the board that reads "Radio Shaek".

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