Tandy TRS-80 Model 4 Commercial from Radio Shack

[Ibringthetruth1]

I saw those fuckers at radio shack. Nobody wanted to buy them.

Giant ugly pieces of shit boat anchors.

[bardofoc]

What the hell was the difference between the $799 version and the $1999 version???!!!!!

[VideoSuperMaster]

Lol, what a piece of crap, and I'd imagine anyone who bought one now deeply regrets it to this day.

[rolko52]

When I worked at Radio Shack back at the time, I had a customer walk in looking at one. He wanted it for his wife so she could balance her checkbook.

[ItsAggieTime]

Check out that keyboard!

[honeybaby000111]

are first computer was 2000 dlors now laptops are under 300 lol and we got tabalats how the world chagees

[uloset]

I love how every 80's computer commercial must show bar graph.

[swk38]

Dont forget ... no lower case letters

[BorgMX5]

@swk38 Actually, the Model 4 did have lower case. It was only the Model I that required a lower case modification. The Color Computer also did not have lower case

[RAYLOWMASTERS]

what a rip off

[crusty21]

00:01 All their jobs got outsourced to Calcutta.

[RioGrandeXD]

LARGE SCREEN MY FUCKING ASS

[camdencomputertech]

I threw one away along with....external display, dual floppy and printer last month!

[mrslig100]

@camdencomputertech

YOU SIR, HAVE NO SOUL!

[camdencomputertech]

@mrslig100 Why thank you very much. Souls have been over-rated for thousands of years, we needed a change!

[TheLizardKing1967]

$ 799.00 to $1999.00 .....IN 1980 DOLLARS. Damm that was HIGH back then.

[SuneGem]

But can it run Crysis?

[iEugene1994]

@SuneGem Of course , in text mode .

[MrArnejoJoshua]

Radio Shack commercial came from 80's In U.S.

[dabrenn]

In ten years today's technology will appear just as primitive.

[Eragarev]

did he died?

[gamerguy0903]

Wow. My aunt taught with this thing. She said something about having to stack books on top of it to get the screen working.

[swderek]

Fuck me - I can finally play Crysis 2!

[MegaDeathwarrant]

2000 grand? Isn't that like worth 50 grand or something back then?

[TheFalloutwolf]

Sad thing is i cant ahold of one today all the ones i find are ether been scrapped for parts mistreated or worn out and wont turn on any more

[benspreen]

Only issue was its slight radioactive aroma

[teckforce37]

Can I buy one?!

[mrjustin5]

Imagine that such as a modern phone like the HTC Evo puts out about 45 MEGAFLOPS on its CPU alone (not counting GPU). Just imagine how much more processing power that cell phone has than this old computer system. It wouldn't even be measured in the 0.005 kiloflops range. A MEGAFLOP is 1 MILLION Floating point operations per second. I doubt that computer could even do a floating point operation. Definitely no math co-processor.

[e081194eng]

I remember those...had to beat it on the side to get the image to show.

[judet2006]

2 grand!

[rad87gn]

I still own mine!!



[gmdinformation]

I loved these computers. They were the only good looking computer ever made until the i-Mac came out.

[SmashCOBamberg]

OMG CAN'T WAIT TILL IT COMES OUT

[MegaDragon998]

@SmashCOBamberg me too!

[truesilverman]

Ah, the 80s, where it cost up to two thousand dollars to use a computer in your home, put in a 5 1/4" floppy in your machine, just to watch porn.

[lordzaphodbeeb]

God, the memories. The Trash 80 was the first computer I ever used way back in '82. lol

[bwitz72]

Holy Crap!!! $2,000???? That's like $4,000 in today's dollars!!!! For like 1/100th the power!!!!

[freethoughtmusic]

I wanted one soooo bad. Later when I borrowed one in the very late 80s it was still cool. They really didn't decerve the name 'trash 80'. They were great machines.

[jhillst]

Computers from the 1980s couldn't do half the things that today's computers can do, but one thing's for sure -- at least they WORKED most of the time!

[samdoofy]

Oh trash 80's

[248Troy]

WOW BIFF POW POOR Quality Video Batman!!! Almost made it look like it was in color.

[Desktop2011]

I own one of these, mint and perfect working condition with the smoked keyboard cover. Didn't pay $799 - $1999 though!  Lusted after them when I was a kid but couldn't afford them. Picked one up on eBay. Built like a tank, and cost about as much to ship.

[DragonUltraMaster]

"It is fast"

Ooooh, I bet it is!!

[MsJenniJennJenn]

I had a computer teacher in high school who called these "Trash 80's" That was back in 1986. Guess he was an IBM man.

[RKOrton1984]

800 - 2000 Dollar :D

LOL, for that u get three to seven PS3 !!!

[BennyB5555]

Wow! I was telling my brother about this (TRS-80) we had same computer class in High School and we had these as our schools "Computer Science" class computers! I remember having typing as a separate class (Word Processing) crazy!

[mubblelyon]

I have no idea why but i laughed so hard at this...

[Wazlor]

RADIOSHACKCATALOGS(dot)COM

[thewii552]

audio is only in the left channel

!

[cookie123456789012]

LEFT EAR RAPE!

[Wazlor]

@cookie123456789012 PRESS THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON ON THE SPEAKER ON THE LEFT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE AND ADJUST IT.

[lazarochavez1]

It was widely known as the Trash80. I worked for aircraft repair company and it was still using years after for some engineering calculations. It didn't look like a bad machine for the time. But as a kid the Commodore 64 was the bomb (color ). I also learned programming on an Apple IIe (not a bad machine either, but expensive). The only machine I didn't work on was a Texas Instrument computer (looked like an overgrown calculator). The IBM PC was not bad, but was boring (no color ).

[Wazlor]

@lazarochavez1 The TRS-80 Color Computer was a great computer for color and use of Compuserve if you ever read "THE RAINBOW" programs where bigger than Radio Shack or Tandy. COCO3(dot)COM and TBBS.ORG and Compuserve(dot)Com is still there... Check them out. All these computers are still sold daily on EBAY(dot)COM

[williamenser]

what computer games does it have? :D

[marcelcelmar]

@williamenser

pac-man, tennis

[adape0884frank]

LOL these things look like they have come a long way. Just look how expensive they were and come to find out they lost value over the years. That they are not even collecters items.

[MattTheSaiyan]

@adape0884frank What are you talking about? These have been collectors items for some years now.

[adape0884frank]

LOL these things look like they have come a long way.

[porbello9]

Bargain !

[320k]

"Easy to use" ... I dunno, I don't think I'd be able to figure it out

[TheOldschoollover]

LOL, I like the all in one feature. No need to unplug that pesky keyboard, and cpu.

[greenthousands]

Yeah, but could you look at porn on one of these?

[OBSysteme]

I am searching for one of these.

[bestamerica]

'

some microsoft program in tandy computer

[pancho8111]

fucken expensive as shhit

[MrRobloMan]

799-1999$ O.o THIS IS SPARTA!

[bestamerica]

MrRobloMan,

'

why 999999999999999

[RichieEastside]

That thing looks like a cash register

[bluesgurugod]

This is way better than any gay faggoty Macbook!

[sheev11]

The name "TRS-80 sticks in my mind. Back when it was the newest and best I was living hand to mouth. One paycheck away from living in the street. But several friends had one and it was something I really wanted.

Now I am 62 years old and have finished college. I make way more. My current computer cost 1,200+ and is built for fast game play. But the TRS-80 is like the toy Santa never left under the tree. Part of me really wants one to fill that void from my youth.

[Wazlor]

@sheev11 GOTO EBAY(dot)COM and type TRS-80 Model 4

[legofans452]

I thought of putting a modern computer in the case of one of those. That'd be awesome...

[Wazlor]

@legofans452 Run Unix at UNIX(dot)COM or get Unix for Dummies and the disk has it on it. Use it as a Terminal or Logon to Compuserve. Its fun to use PROCOMM to logon no matter what computer you use. Compuserve is funner at Protocal B+ than with its own program. !GO SETTINGS from it and set it. Not Terminal.exe but a good program from Hayes like EZTERM that comes in the hayes box. Hayes(dot)Com

[peacebrutha]

oh my god comes with a big screen!

[jackdowse]

well now we call it a laptop lol

[anzwertree]

those were the days

[valdarmort]

to expensive. i7 is only 10% faster .much more cost affective to run 1 platform back my evga 780i with qx9650 @4 ghz fast is enough

[valdarmort]

does it support the new core 2 duos lol lol

[trndphilliephan]

even that ^^^^^ is old tech right now, it's all about the quad core i7 or phenom

[arhuxtable]

U sed those computers in middle school and high school back in the eighties. Fond memories!

[chicoflaco]

$1999 in the 1980s! That like $10,000 today!

[NakedCreep]

LOOK AT THAT LARGE DISPLAY!

[goblinadg]

i take prade for having use a 5 1/4 floppy disk

[Wazlor]

@goblinadg Floppydisk(dot)com

[chulk607]

@goblinadg

Prade, eh? Cool...

[metal9lover9maniac]

@goblinadg I have Sorcerer, by Infocom on a 5 1/4 in floppy disk! :D

[metal9lover9maniac]

@goblinadg It works perfect on my Apple ][e which I can plug into my tv with composite video. I love that computer. It's so compact, even with a keyboard and 5 1/4 in floppy disk drive built in! Perfect for setting it on my lap and having good retro fun! :)

[bobharris77]

@goblinadg Bah!! If you haven't used an 8" floppy, you ain't a real nerd!

[Tonia682]

@bobharris77 this was back when floppy disks were really floppy!!!

[legofans452]

@vleon1012 Floppy disks! Back when they were actually flopy! :P I actually have one of those computers... I made text based games with it. Really tiny ones, though.

[BruisedBrains]

they make toilets smaller than that thing

[legofans452]

I have one of those right beside my elbow! My dad used to collect them, and now he's sorta teaching my how to program it.

[insaneinthesfv]

Ah, the TRS-80...we had one of those at my school. You'd plug this mini cassette into the comp, and VOILA! Ten minutes later, you were all booted up with an incredible 8K of RAM.

Most expensive calculator ever.

[ben1853]

Its Fast! - No.

It has a big display! - No.

[cyberlord64]

dude in 20 years we mooved this far? lol!!!

by the time i hit 40 we will probably have stuff that now we see in sifi movies as alien equipment :P

[ottosantiago]

Did that guy say LARGE DISPLAY????

[ICI4MOR3VII]

rofl he must have been on drugs and saw the future has we see it today "but im telling you they had these pocket touch thingys it was marvelous" "um stay off the shrooms k rick" lol

[lambchopxoxo]

I also learned DOS and this was only as far back as 1991. We have come pretty far in less than 20 years!

[lambchopxoxo]

I remember those 5 1/4" floppies!!

[lordfirefox]

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[voltron821]

Wow! $1999 back in the 1980s must be like $3999 is now. You could by three dell XPS computers for that now.

[LocoYoFla]

We were still using these in MIami-Dade Schools when I graduated high school in 2000.

[gnome2388]

really?? oh wow

[TheMachanga]

100101001010011101001100100011­001100100100110010000010110110­101101101001010010010010100111­101010010101001010101011000111­101010010100110101010010101101­001000101001010001100100100111­010010011001110101010010

[tonyrueb]

011010010110011000100000011110­010110111101110101011100100010­000001100111011011110110100101­101110011001110010000001110100­011011110010000001110111011100­100110100101110100011001010010­000001101001011011100010000001­100010011010010110111001100001­011100100111100100100000011011­010110000101101011011001010010­000001101001011101000010000001­101101011001010110000101101110­001000000111001101101111011011­010110010101110100011010000110­10010110111001100111 <and that says some thing

[TheMachanga]

100101010011010010?

[jeremyhillaryboobphd]

@tonyrueb wat does it say?

[tonyrueb]

google "binary to ASCII converter" first listing copy it to the box on the left and click to text

[EataPony]

thats a large display? I'd hate to say a small.

[tjamassey]

I had a Trash-80 - model II I think. A full 16K of memory! A tape drive that worked if you saved about 5 times.

[Overlapse1000]

err, i was working on the apple 2e back then, and a couple of other units, the time clocks weren't capable of ram channels back then, but file linking through the time clock sure worked better than spindles for multi-tasking

[23456applejuicebum]

lol!

[DjICEbrooklynNYC]

This was the 1st computer i ever touched,back in junior high school.We had to learn the computer language called BASIC..

[panegyricoo]

I feel nostalgic about those computers, do you feel the same way? Of course today wan can do fantastic things with the ones we have but...

Cheers!

[rockinstlouis]

@panegyricoo absolutely.. this was the first computer I ever sat at.. I'm 30 now.. when you're a little kid, this thing was amazing to sit behind.. "ok class, type in CLOAD" meaning let's load off a CASSETTE DECK that the master TRS-80 had.. and when they died, they died.. I think due to the power supply..

[b41d3r]

@panegyricoo Yes, I'm a software engineer and despite their lack of power, we could do great things. Moreover, they had very specific design that made them unique, you could recognize a computer at a glance. Today,they are all the same boxes maybe but Apple. Even the games were much more imaginative than today where graphic capacity is the only criteria for gamers. I still play to arkanoid !

[moviedudeinc]

@panegyricoo I am the exact same way. They should sell these old computers again to not only the old generation but to the new generation as well. Im still looking for one on ebay mostly and Im trying to prove to my mom how old computers have advanced since 1977. Anyone else agree becides panegyricoo and myself?

[albear972]

Same here, back in the day, (1985) I used to mess with my friends and hit the orange button during programming class. They were not happy, and now that I think about it, not cool.

[BolivarDan]

$11500 dollars in Argentina in '85.. I think the monopoly was worldwide, yeah.

[burg823]

My first programming class used these.

Damn I feel old now watching this.

[murfreebear]

I use to have one long ago.  "fast and easy to use" LMAO

[ShamW0W]

Did anyone buy that thing? lol. I was all hardcore from CoCo I, II, and III but I don't know anyone who bought into anything else from Tandy after that. Everyone was so hardcore about their CoCo's but knew the new direction was "IBM clones" (PCs)

[Wazlor]

@ShamW0W COCO3(dot)COM... Compuserve(dot)COM

[AlansVlogs]

i bet its worth -£2000 now

[phoenix2972]

Jesus! $2000 ???!!!

[GaiusBaltarrr]

How many punch cards does it come with?!

[jethropu]

I don't remember the world being that orange back in the 80's....lol

[ClassicGarth]

My shag carpet was twice as orange!

[dave98503]

My how technology

has changed

since the 1880s.

[bestamerica]

dave98503,

'

in 1880 do not have technology

[1203kitkat]

@bestamerica I believe it was sarcasm 

[anzaeria]

Oh man, we had a TRS-80 Colour Computer. Though with the basic graphics, it couldn't produce circles. We played this game on it where you travel to another planet but it was a square planet. Then we got some sort of extension added on to it that allowed it to produce circles but they were very crude, stair-stepping circles lol.

[Wazlor]

@anzaeria That will teach you when you pay a grand for one today you cant produce Graphics at all.

[dpwig]

We had this when I was 12, Dad took us to Comuter classes

[ProTechTraining]

My Mom used to sell these. We had a whole house full of Model I, II, III and color TRS80s. It was nerd heaven growing up :-)

[dw90242]

I learned to program in "BASIC" on this model in school when I was probably 12ys old! Damned! Where did the days go? Life's too short!

[kross10c]

omg same her only it was trs-80 model 3 and i was 12 in 83'

[Dishfarm]

I had a few TRS-80 machines in my collection. One of them had 8" floppies with the Xenix operation system. I also got my hands on an old IBM with 8" floppies and DOS 1.0, the printer was a HUGE wide carriage and fan cooled. The cable for the printer probably weighed more than many laptops produced today.

[Wazlor]

@Dishfarm DMP-110 and a CCR-81 Recorder...

[678BUMPERLOVER]

btw im not a nerd i had to use this sorry ass computer for a report since all of the good modern computers were taking that day

[678BUMPERLOVER]

middle school in 90's the librarian had one of those computers it was one of the most annoying computers that i have ever seen in my entire life it wouldn't let you do what you wanted to do on it until you put down the right date time and other unessary infomation this computer pissed me off

[rdillon7872]

$799 can get you a dual core processor nowadays. With 1 gig ram to boot.

[mrfireclaw]

wow it soooo fast lol /jokeing

[HockeyMetalRPG]

I remember in high school, my senior year 87-88 we had about 15 of these model 4's in my PASCAL programming class. WOW

[DotCalmmm]

:17

"versatility"

LOVE IT!!

[readmedottext]

I had a TRS80 Mk one, the monitor, two 5 1/4's and a ram module with TRSdos and a bunch of other programs. I preferred my CoCo's. Finally the monitor died (thing had a phono plug for video.. wierd) so I took it out in the back woods and shot it for fun.

[Wazlor]

@readmedottext PIF Paripherial Interface Adaptor is about $19.95 by Radio Shack and is the same one as Atari 2600...

[readmedottext]

@Wazlor

uh, I have no idea why you are telling me this, but ok.

[theblue64]

my mom says she had a tandy computer. idk which one. i gotta show her pics and ask her which one was it.

[lohphat]

I STILL HAVE my original TRS-80 Model I from 1979.

/lawn, off

[TRENZ2]

My Jr. High school had those back in the early 80's.

:)

[JonesyBoogieman]

Imagine what $700 - $1800 meant back then, and that a school had at least one. That would be like a school spending around $2000 - $4000 on technology today. Yeah, likely. Sad, eh?

[crocutacrocuta]

Large display? Wow.

[DecimusAwsumus]

oh shit! bar graphs! HELL YES

[Dirtfire]

How much memory did this thing have? I guesstimate around 64k or so.

[lohphat]

it only had 48k usable --other12k was for the 12K rom, 1K video buffer (yeah 80x24), and i/o port mapping.

[dynamoehummm]

Yeah whatever nerd! Like you have one! Try to take your Comm 64 anywhere. Bring your TV! I got the 4P and so what about the memory. I stole 20 floppies from computer lab and its got two drives! And I can take it anywhere, but mostly to school so I can use the superrad daisy wheel. Its got a handle, cover everything. And small and light! Only about the size and weight of a double bowling bag. Tubular spreadsheets or something for nerds. And Where In The World is Carmen SanDiego!

[ProfessorHuggins]

1800$ wow :D

[QuantumNLP]

The TRASH 80 - Old Faithful!

[wisteela]

Brilliant! I would love one of those old machines. Be great for running CP/M stuff.

[Yesimaprincess]

Oh my gosh! People thougth those were soo cool!