Tandy 1000 of DOOM

[Nyarlathotep9]

The date and time never worked for me either. That was my first PC computer ever that I got in 87. Thank you so much for taking me back in time.

P.S. You pretty much needed a joystick or a mouse (plugged into the joystick port) to do much of anything with Personal Deskmate 2.

P.P.S. Mine still worked after 12 years of regular use. Gave it to my hippie friend next door :).

[websuspect]

Ihad the SX the HX had a ROM with DOS stored on it and it automatically boot to dos 3.2

[od090]

funny crickets chirr

[mohawksaresexy2]

what the FCK is that high pitch chirping noise? crickets with restless less syndrom?

[NasherDezno]

The 1000HX never had a battery, you had to set the date and time everytime you booted. Is why we never shut it off

[Borin81]

but...why hook it up outside the house?

[jdcrispe95]

learn to die :)

[TheDemoniusX]

Personal Deskmate was very awesome. had a cool music writer and a nice way to view docs. Great days. Tandy sound was cool!

[jci10]

You got some freakin' loud crickets...

[Lachlant1984]

I want that computer, i want one damn it, they're better than most other IBM compatable machines of the time.

[Chaniyth]

In case anyone or the original poster is wondering what the specs of this system is, it was released in 1987 and contained an Intel 8088 CPU @ 4.77 MHz / 7.16 MHz, CGA graphics with 160x200, 320x200, and 640x200 resolutions. It came with 256 KB of RAM (expandable up to 640 KB). The sound on this was amazing for it's time, 3 voices + 1 sound channel. It came with a 720 KB 3.5" floppy drive but no HDD, although third party companies did produce HDD's for this model, Tandy never did.

[Willd86]

Put a core i7 processor in this pc and i think you should try to install the windows 7 lolololololol hehehe

[daiatlus79]

omg.. we had one of those in school when i was a kid.. i had the 1000RL at home

[zsyed12345678]

I loved my Tandy 1000HX. My dad bought it for us in 1988. I remember spending hours and hours writing Turbo Pascal programs.

[ZXRulezzz]

We currently studying Turbo Pascal in our institute, lol

[InvaderZee2112]

Does anyone remember the Sesame Street game for Tandy where you had to help Rubber Duckie get to the bathtub with Ernie? It was the best game ever... :)

[ringbolt9]

awesome i had this and used deskmate to do all my college papers on@!!!!

[chrismofer]

my birthday is august 18!!!

[sonick808]

wow i'd love to have a clean 1000 like that! Luckyyyyyyyy

[RantovRizzia]

deskmate rocks! I think you got an error tone there :)

[overcastgabriel]

its so worse than windos 95

[ChickenLeg91]

Oh shit, it's midnight 1/1/1980 again!

[MusashiHazmat84]

ahahahahahahhaha! I don't remember it ever being anything else! It never made it to 1/2.

[MacDragard]

I remember the music program. It was fun.

[nephildevil]

OMG it played a note!

haha u sound cute :)

u shud have opened that .doc file

it was named don't ask

musta been something kinkey :p

[TapeWyrm]

The "battery" was non-existent in a stock Tandy 1000 HX (and SX, EX, etc..). You had to get a seperate clock "chip" and install it in order for it to keep the date/time.

[MusashiHazmat84]

LOL what did I know anyway! I was only 4 when we bought this computer and as far as I could tell the date/time never worked (my parents swore it did but in all my days playing sesame street games I never remembered the date being correct. Thanks for explaining it! My parents always said it needed a battery or some such thing.

[TapeWyrm]

Yeah, I got a ton useless knowledge about these machines. I never thought I'd actually use it :) Kind of embarassing now that I think about it :)

[scottdh132]

Oh, I miss my Tandy 1000 HX... I don't know why, I just do... I think if I actually had it, I would get frustrated at how long it takes to get information off the disk!!! Freaking forever, compared to what we have nowadays... *sigh*

[kingcrimson234]

bwahaha thats so awesome i got one a few weeks ago to toy with, also got the same monitor you have!

will you marry me? i now pronounce you nerd and nerd girl.

[phantom3rdchannel]

press tab till it gets to play:)

[midelato]

:D Thanks for this video!! I loved Tandy 1000 and Personal Deskmate. And, you can play the songs using CTRL+P ;D

See you

[sabre65xx]

The Tandy 1000 was great! I remember "upgrading" from the Color Computer II to the 1000 and playing Leisure Suit Larry for hours.

[Keranu]

I used to play LSL on the family Tandy 1000 all the time!

[poopskinTheLiar]

:O DESKMATE!

[anidnmeno]

hah hooray for vintage computing. I have a Tandy 1000 RSX with Windows 3.1 that still runs

[0597534]

Do you know if there is a website that I could download on a floppy disk DeskMate? Answers will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[CyborgNinja7]

ONLY 8 years? Wow, you took a while to upgrade, LOL j/k.

[mrynit]

you could get an AVR for like $25 that is more powerfull.

[Angryjolly]

Oh my god.....yay

[ZombieRyushu]

I still have my Tandy 1000 TL. I recently upgraded it to accept a VGA card, and I'm going to embark on a project to connect it to my network. It has a 21 MB Hard Disk.

[jaguarjjm]

Cool video! I only just got rid of my old Tandy 1000 TL which ran DeskMate. I had it for 18 years and it still ran fine when I parted with it, despite years of hard use and a few Frankensteinish modifications. It was one of the best computers I've ever owned for its era.

PS. Just tab to the Play button and press the spacebar to "click". That annoyed me too that it wasn't easy to get to without a mouse.

[machinesbreathe]

Hooray, Deskmate!

[tentwentysixpm]

LOVE IT

[HS3006]

I want you as my girlfriend!

[MusashiHazmat84]

lol I'm getting married next month :).

[HS3006]

Well, if you know any single women who would like to have a play-date with a great-looking single man + a Commodore Amiga 500 computer, let me know! :)

[gibsonification1]

@MusashiHazmat84 so, i bet you´re now married lol

[AMDkicksass]

ahhh the quality of old computers

[Cristofre]

A GIRL playing with a funky antique computer??? What is this world coming to? ;-)