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The CoCo 2 keyboard was much better.
My first computer!! #DESKMATE!!!
Where did you guys go?? Hope to see new videos!
I had a Atari 400 when it first came out and there was a improved keyboard you could buy extra that made it almost as good as the Atari 800 keyboard it was called the "B-key 400" upgrade and was worth every penny... I had the 16K version and it was more then enough to run every one of those cartridge and cassette games very well... then I bought a Atari 810 floppy drive and that made a big difference in the type of games you could get... Good times... :)
A couple of long hairs after my own heart. I'm 85% in agreement.
I liked the video, but I got nuts from "Coldplay Clocks - the non copyright Elevator Edition".
POV : you just came on this video for Young sheldon
Tandy did the PCJr right, and it was a massively popular seller for them.
The biggest problem with the sidecar, was that you couldn't have too many of them, because the power supply couldn't handle more than about 3, depending on how much power each individual card drew. Some sidecars would be sold with their own power supply, but IBM also sold a power sidecar, with a power supply, that would power the sidecars downstream of it. The TI/99 also had an expansion slot on the side that allowed you to chain peripherals to it, but it was really unwieldy, because some of the accessories that used it were huge. A TI machine, with every expansion port accessory attached, could be more than 10 feet long.
I dissasembled mine when I got it new and saw rthat the bus is actually available through the rear of the motherboard. Suggesting they had thoughts on a Apple like expansion system
@NewsmakersTech --- Can the Aquarius play Intellivision games, and is it compatible with the Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module or Entertainment Computer System peripherals?
My first computer was a 1200XL. I really liked it. I never had any issues with it at all. However, I sold it and bought an 800 simply because the 800 had 4 joystick ports. Those were important for playing M.U.L.E. with 4 players. :) Commodore bought MOS Tech which made the 6502 CPU. That allowed them to sell the C64 at a price lower than anyone else, including Atari. The C64 was really cheaply made but was a good computer. There is a YT video out there where the guy who designed the C64 said they copied the Atari 800 to make the C64.
If you didnt get refunds for broken computers thats completely on you. eBay sides with the buyer 99% of the time. So sounds to me like you didnt try.
Where i this IIGS video? 2 Years and no video?
A computer in your pocket? Wherever you go? Who on Earth would use something like that?
Things I'd like to see you talk about... [1] Which non-American retro computers interest you the most? (be interesting to see which country most of them come from, I'm guessing either Japan or the UK with maybe the former Warsaw Pact?) [2] Which retro computers would you never get and why? [3] Which retro computers do you not have, but would love to get the most? What are your "Holy Grails" of retro computing?
23:41 haha. Funny...
I had the TANDY 1000-EX I put the chips in myself as a kid to upgrade the RAM to 684K. It was simple and I loved to be the only kid on my block to have one! I had a F-15 flight simulator game that was totally KOOL for the time! Then the 486 came out.. My Gateway 486 had a swapped-out CPU @ 100-Mhz. AMD instead of the 33-Mhz. INTEL I had a SEAGATE 2-Ghz. HD... and 33-mb of RAM!!
1 coco 3. 2 tandy 1000ex. 3. Tandy 1000 sx
This was my very first computer.
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Had one!! loved it!
The constant background noise is really stressful.
I’m f*****g hell get out of the windows 7
The 400 that I bought my son in 1980 was a super video game computer, it was fast. My wife loved playing Pac man. She racked up points like crazy.
Had a powerful version of BASIC, the last code written by Bill Gates personally. I loved mine. Used it for local BBS and amateur radio satellite pass predictions. Very handy and a great keyboard.
First one I owned too. I bought it at Sears
Lad, that's not even HALF of the Tandy 2000 story. I expected a little more tbh.
Everything else about this vid was awesome. But hearing, "puh-riff-ree-alls," tweaks something in my brain. Much like when someone says, "right off the back." 😂😂😂
Do an Updated Version with Windows 11 please!
Bonjour, petite question, est ce quelqu un saurait si les cartouches de jeux du ti-99 sont compatibles avec un autre ordinateur ou une autre console que celle ci ?? ou sont t ils exclusivement conçu pour ne fonctionner que sur le ti-99 ?? les consoles atari par exemple ont la possibilité la plupart du temps de permettre d interchanger les jeux atari sur d autres consoles atari.. merci d avance pour celui qui aurait l info :)
There’s a HUGE Jack Tramiel-Commodore link here. Tramiel hated TI for almost putting Commodore out of business in the 1970s calculator wars. His revenge at Commodore was to launch a price war against the 99/4A by slashing VIC-20 and C-64 prices to levels far below TI’s costs… but where Commodore could still make money due to its high volume and lower costs. In 1983 at a major trade show, Commodore announced a HUGE price cut on peripherals for the 64 including disk drives, monitors, and printers. An enraged executive from TI stormed over to the Commodore booth and shouted at Tramiel about how the peripheral cuts would ruin TI’s computer business… as TI was making up for losses it took on every 99/4A (as a result of price cuts from the price war) with profits on peripherals. Tramiel smiled and reportedly said “yes, I know,” and the 99/4A was discontinued later that month. He’d had his revenge.
Even in 1980, you needed lower case for a business computer.
My family didn't have much in the mid 80s. E.g. We still had a black and white TV when most of my friends had colour. So when my grandfather passed to us his beige TI-99/4A (years after it was discontinued) I was excited. We got no software for it. All I ever played were BASIC games typed in from the manual, or games my father translated from books from the library. Was it the ideal setup? Absolutely not. Would I have changed anything in retrospect? No way. It gave me an appreciation for programming and tinkering and it gave my father and I a lifelong bond through technology.
The 400/800 series was ahead of its time. It simply cost to much, and the C64 broke the back of Atari.
I don’t think you guys can appreciate portable computing in 1983. I lugged my 4P all over the place. A fully functional version of your desktop computer was very nice. ‘83 was the first year there was a functional laptop (Gavilan SC) at $4000+ if you could find one and was zero use to TRS-80 users. Also we were not still primarily using cassettes for software. And had, in fact, converted any existing cassette software to run off disks a couple years before at least.
My first computer was a randy 1000 EX, and I loved it
I had one of these back in the day. I found $100 in a parking lot and after waiting 10 minutes to see if anyone came looking for it, I used it to buy a TRS-80 MC-10! The only thing I did with it was write some basic programs. I wish I had kept it...
Similar to the problems with the Zenith Z-100 and the TI Professional computers. Better in some ways than the IBM PC but different I/O schemes so they couldn’t run PC software that wrote directly to the screen. Those were frustrating years.
I recently made a trip back to the US after being gone since 1991. My Coco3 made the trip back to Japan with me. It has a place of honor all it's own.
back in the day I hacked the controller board from the XF551 floppy drive and a 3.5" floppy disk drive into my 1200XL, so that you could insert 3.5" floppy disks into the right hand side of the computer. Sometimes it took 2 cycles of the power switch for everything to work, but otherwise it was a great, compact system.
Bought one when they came out in the early 80s, spent hours writing programs for things like curve fitting, graphing. Bought the 16k ram pack and a modem, used it to connect to the university mainframe for a mandatory univac assembly language course. Still have it sitting in bin with other retired gadgets I can't part with.
Rip 😢
But how to connect a mouse? None of my usb mousees work in win98 and this notebook does not have a ps2 port...
i use to have t40 it died few years ago it was great laptop
I had the silver version... Loved it growing up!
Had one in 1984.£49.99.2 games TI invaders and parsec.Then got alpiner.My dad's mate had one with tape games. Plus you spent an hour typing in a program out of a mag.Then waited 10mins for it to load. Happy days hahaha 🤘👻
I had one, it was my first computer. Poke 34343,255 used to crash it nicely 😂 CLOADM & CSAVEM worked on mine, and if not used correctly would generate an ?FM error (file mode)
I believe I upgraded my CoCo 3 to 512k ram. You could look into the Macintosh clone software CoCo-Max and other titles. There was WYSIWYG word processor, drawing program and more.