Tandy 1000 computer Christmas commercial

[TheDrk4444]

All you baby boomer geeks are funny. My parents had a rotary phone till 1985, but luckily they bought me an Atari for Xmas when I was 11, which made me tech savy today. I never had the patients for dial up, so I never spent big money on a computer till 4g wifi came out. Before I thought computers were a waste of time

[metrogeckorev2]

WE HAVE EVOLVED!!!

[mikeman10]

I remember our first computer was a Tandy, I dont remember the model number but we got it sometime in 1994. Also had a slow as fuck printer with an external 28.8 modem over serial connection and windows 3.1 which we soon after upgraded to 95 haha. I remember wasting hours playing Wolfenstein 3D, Doom and Duke Nukem on that sucker

[SashaNein]

Sad as it is, the damn thing was more reliable than my quad core PC. Sometimes my new PC acts like my crap 33MHz computer I had 16 years ago, loading browser windows like Chrome really slow, like a dialup connection loading a porn image from top to bottom. Makes no damn sense. The more technology evolves, the more bloat there is to keep it in check. Ugh!

[C0LL1N]

im using a tandy 1000 right now, boy these php websites take forever to load

[MrBrianTV1]

So I guess you can only get the color monitor at Christmas? All the other months you have to settle for black and white.

[StrixNoctis]

They were cool back then, at least to me, my siblings, and friends. There were several different Tandy 1000 models back then. The one in that commercial looks like it could be the SX. My dad bought us an SX and an SL model. The SL had a built-in (Tandy) sound sampler input & output but the SX only had the sound sampler output. The SX didn't have a volume control for the speaker but the SL did. The SL also had a PROM and came with Tandy Desktop and the sound sampler software.

[nannernanner]

We had an IBM 386 instead, way better than Tandy

[blissenterprises]

999? damn....

[jpd782]

The Tandy 1000. You can do math on them. Stare at the cool screen saver. Write letters, to print out and mail to your friends.

[MiHiVidz]

No. Even people back then knew that Tandy computers were overpriced suck.

[Kitsuneranger]

@MiHiVidz I had a hand me down Tandy 800

Worst computer i ever had, all of it's prodrams run of cassette tapes of which most of them are slow as fuck to load

IBM PC jr. is better than the Tandy!

[Alymero]

I wanted a go-kart and instead got this piece of crap back in '85.

[theonlybezo]

My first ever computer was a Tandy 1000. Back in 1984. And the fucker still runs today. Unlike almost every other computer I've gotten since that.

[InternetLad]

@theonlybezo but can it run Crysis?

[UtopicoGRA16]

any you take any PC went young?

[genesislordofdarknes]

Dad's doing some late night porn surfing.

[lbach1981]

one person doesn't like to stay late at the office.

[boob72]

I had a tandy 1000 and it was a bucket of pus. Their big claim was that it was 98% PC compatible, that's like saying a chimp has 98% the same dna as a human. I couldn't get a single PC program to run on it. Tried to sell it but no one would buy it. Ended up swapping it for a new commodore 64d with a monitor and disk drive.

[DavesLife100]

soooooooooo OLD

[damienlucifuge]

Isn't that Killer Carlson from Slap Shot?

[marvinchannel123]

My grand father found two controlers for this computer but didnt know what they were for so he just gave them to me and now i need to go back and get the computer.

[MysteryOpponent]

0:22

[TheLogicman1]

For all it did and compared to the other computers at the time.. 999 dollars was a freaking steal for the Tandy 1000

[yoops]

I should have kept my old Tandy 1000, my family just threw it away.

[oepolish]

times have changed alot, the tandy was $999.00 then. And 2 months ago I bought a brand new e machines computer at wall mart for $300 +

[VintageJunior]

Judging on how he laughs at the end, he's cheating on his wife and tells her it's his work he attends.

[FUNGALBALLZ4ALL]

@VintageJunior he's a closet homosexual!

[nathanallan1]

And Dad is playing video games-- times haven't changed at all!! That's me, but I still use the Tandy :)

[JesusManson323]

$999 for the comp and monitor was pretty damn good back then.

[Chaniyth]

@JesusManson323

Kinda, but for less than $999 you could have got a Commodore 64, color monitor, floppy drive, and printer. I think all that was less than $999 if I remember corrcetly from some of my old Compute! Gazette magazines.

[MissingSceptor]

The Tandy 1000! With only 1 byte of hard drive space and compatible with that floppy disk that shows a picture of the BSoD, it makes ITSELF old news!

Now for over NINE THOUSAND dollars.

[Messerschmitt262a2a]

those computers are still cool but in another way

[gnome2388]

i agree with messerschmitt262a2a

[iEugene1994]

@Messerschmitt262a2a They even can run Crysis in text mode !

[guiqui5]

I used to have a Tandy 1000 but nowadays that technology would probably be worth 5 dollars or less.

[Dms12444]

actually, Tandy computers are well sought after collectibles among those that collect vintage computers. You might be surprised what old Tandy computers are going for. Id pay a lot to get my hands on one (if I can find one).

[APriceProduction]

Shows how times have changed, today you can buy a pretty powerful PC or laptop for half the price that's excluding the Mac's of course in price.

It's amazing how the technology in only 20 years has changed computers. I remember reading a book a few years ago, in which talked about a computer that could give you unlimited hard drive space speed. However such a computer would put a lot of companies out of business. Two reasons one it would cost a fortune to make and the other a fortune to sale.

[hanrinch]

it's over ....9000 dolla!!!

[bellier20]

Pretty much the wrap-up of Jerry Houser's career.

[6364gg2]

Its just like the one i have at the office! Fling! ohhhh!

[sonyab1974]

When I was a kid we had a tandy!!!! It was my brother's. :) I loved that thing! Don't know why ROFL. I'm glad I don't have one now!

[DreadfulRay]

"Don't stay too late at the office, Dear"

"Ha-HA!"

[586guest2]

yes the new tandy 1000 can be yours!! its amazing 1 bite of ram and seemingly endles 1.2mb of hard drive space!! and check out the high definition 2 bit monotone 3 inch screen!! yes all this can be yours for just 124 payments of $60000!!!

[RABBIDGamfan]

It could be argued that the price you pay for an 8 Mhz Z80 powered TI-84+ graphing calculator with 480K of flash memory in most places is a pretty big ripoff.

[linnix13]

haha i know all computing equipment is over priced but its getting alot better. the laptop im on is only 500 bucks and its pretty darn fast.

[underlinedbluetext]

ohh radioshack, how you have declined over the years. check out my tandy vid

[dreamdasher]

My first computer was a Tandy 1000-SL. No hard drive (those were still optional back then), and only 4 color display. Slow as dirt, but it was all I had and we found ways to entertain ourselves on it.

[monicafur]

FANCY!!!

[lolypopper]

lol 999!? wow!

[thwyter]

My second pc was a Tandy 1000 SX back in 87-88. Boy did I have fun.

[Th3ba1r0n]

Man. I wish mine never broke :C I like my tandy, my dad learned how to upgrade it to be compatible to IBM software, and I installed a hard drive for storage, that was fun times:3 I even installed a hard disk on mine to play silly little games like hard hat macK :3

[Angryjolly]

I had one of these back in the day. oooo do your finances! I played kings quest on this with 2 min load times

[ThreeMicks]

I totally had one of these back in middle school - used to surf all the local BBS sites (pre-internet days) looking for games (man, I'm old).

[sonyab1974]

used to surf all the local BBS sites (pre-internet days)

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Yes I used to go on so many BBS sites! I would go on the message boards and talk to people! Remember when the person who owned the website would be called Sysop? :) Now they are called Webmaster.

[Jeff98177]

The dad was on all kinds of TV shows in the 1980s and played Jan's husband in The Brady Brides.

[fscap811]

You are correct, his name is Jerry Houser and he was in a lot of movies during the 70's, like Summer of '42 and Slapshot

[nesnman]

You sure get more for you money with a computer today.