Tandy Color Computer - A Closer Look

This is my first hardware "Closer Look" review video and its about the Tandy Color Computer. A little bit about its history and changes from model to model. It was a great little computer that suffered from poor marketing and an untimely demise.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• TRS-80
• Tandy
• Color
• Colour
• Computer
• Coco
• Radio
• Shack

[Madgun68]

What? Didn't show the "good, bad, and the ugly"? I've never seen a computer with an easter egg like it. (It's usually just text.)

[atarileaf]

Are you referring to the picture of the 3 programmers? I'd forgotten all about that. Do you remember how to bring it up?

[marlinlee]

To bring up "The Three Mugateers" hold down Control and Alt while pressing reset. It is actually quite useful. If you bring up "The Three Mugateers" then press reset again it will cold boot the machine the same as if you turned it off and back on.

The picture is actually 3 pictures pasted together. In fact Mark Hawkins and Todd Earles are wearing the same jacket.

[atarileaf]

I actually did another video showing it. I'd forgotten all about this "easter egg" as its called. :)

[julsyDCst]

Great review, I was brought up on the model B and later the Archemedies (Acorns) and love all the old computer reviews on youtube of computers I no little or as in this case, nothing about, thanks

[atarileaf]

Your welcome :)

[schoolgirlshortdress]

Hi. Thanks for the video .Great info...A

[Masteroftuba3]

I just got a coco 2 in my last pickup!!!!!! :D I was so excited because i new that you loved your coco, and now I have one of my own!!!

[mooncameras]

Awesome review

[daafies2]

well done

[RetroGamerVX]

I'd love to see the coco 3 running :o)

[RetroGamerVX]

Not ever having seen a coco in real life, after watching that centipede clone video of yours you just put up, I went for a review of the coco, you know, this is the only video I could find!! Wow, it's unusual looking, almost as if it's designed for the monitor to be put on top (monitors/tvs were small back then as I am sure you know :o) ) Wow, 16k in 1980 was huge!!!, I didn't even have that on the vic20! Funny how computers used to be all in the keyboard...now commodore are at it again!!

[lemaro1977]

Great video! I had an TRS-80 color II (here in Brazil was called CP-400 color II) in 1989. I loved the games and the basic programming. Wish i had learned machine language :P

regards

[BorgMX5]

TRS-80 is Tandy Radio Shack but that is not a venture of two companies. Tandy Corporation is the owner of the Radio Store brand name. They are one and the same.

[iimustang]

Coco keyboards - there were the chiclet (original Coco 1, C to F revision motherboards), the better-travel-but-not-yet-a-re­al-keyboard on the first 64K Coco (basically a Coco 1 with a lighter colored case, came out in late 1983 at the same time as the Coco 2, and the Coco 2 full travel keyboard. Then the Coco 3 keyboard, with 4 extra keys and a slightly different layout, in 1986.

[iimustang]

Re: 512k upgrade - remove the original chips, cut a few capacitors, and install a satellite board for 512k. 3rd party upgrades of 1 MB and 2 MB from Disto were also available, and Paul Barton got it up to 8 MB later on.