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2022-10-22 at 3:56 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Lol you are such a nigger. They had nothing to do with the Navy and neither did the name. The term Radio Shack was slang for the radio room on any ship not just Navy ships. Theodore and Milton Deutschmann wanted to provide equipment for the nascent field of amateur radio (also known as ham radio). Ham Radio not Navy….
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2022-10-22 at 4:43 PM UTC
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2022-10-22 at 5:19 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bought one of my first computers that was only sold at Radio Shack, which was the Tandy. Monochrome screen with yellow text and about seven applications on it. Cost about $5,000, with a 5mb hard drive.
Complete and utter bullshit Will and you should know it.
The first Tandy system available with an HDD was the Tandy 1000 HD. It was released in Q4 of 1984 with an retail price of $1399.00. Also it ran a composite graphics which could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator. Finally, it shipped with either a 10MB or 20MB hard drive not a 5MB hard drive.
My first old lady was a Radio Shack manager in 1981. My first system was a Tandy Model I. You pretend to know much more than you do. While these kids don't know things from before they born I was there. -
2022-10-22 at 5:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Complete and utter bullshit Will and you should know it.
The first Tandy system available with an HDD was the Tandy 1000 HD. It was released in Q4 of 1984 with an retail price of $1399.00. Also it ran a composite graphics which could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator. Finally, it shipped with either a 10MB or 20MB hard drive not a 5MB hard drive.
My first old lady was a Radio Shack manager in 1981. My first system was a Tandy Model I. You pretend to know much more than you do. While these kids don't know things from before they born I was there.
He was just testing you, calm down dumbass -
2022-10-22 at 5:31 PM UTC
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2022-10-22 at 5:49 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Complete and utter bullshit Will and you should know it.
The first Tandy system available with an HDD was the Tandy 1000 HD. It was released in Q4 of 1984 with an retail price of $1399.00. Also it ran a composite graphics which could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator. Finally, it shipped with either a 10MB or 20MB hard drive not a 5MB hard drive.
My first old lady was a Radio Shack manager in 1981. My first system was a Tandy Model I. You pretend to know much more than you do. While these kids don't know things from before they born I was there.
You must have been annoying as fuck, back in the day.
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2022-10-22 at 5:51 PM UTC
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2022-10-22 at 5:54 PM UTC
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2022-10-22 at 6:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Complete and utter bullshit Will and you should know it.
The first Tandy system available with an HDD was the Tandy 1000 HD. It was released in Q4 of 1984 with an retail price of $1399.00. Also it ran a composite graphics which could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator. Finally, it shipped with either a 10MB or 20MB hard drive not a 5MB hard drive.
My first old lady was a Radio Shack manager in 1981. My first system was a Tandy Model I. You pretend to know much more than you do. While these kids don't know things from before they born I was there.
I said ONE of my first computers. Mine was actually a prototype of the TANDY TRS-80 with a 5mb hard drive. You don't really know me like you think you do. -
2022-10-22 at 7:10 PM UTC
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Complete and utter bullshit Will and you should know it.
The first Tandy system available with an HDD was the Tandy 1000 HD. It was released in Q4 of 1984 with an retail price of $1399.00. Also it ran a composite graphics which could be used with a color or monochrome composite monitor, or a TV with an RF modulator. Finally, it shipped with either a 10MB or 20MB hard drive not a 5MB hard drive.
My first old lady was a Radio Shack manager in 1981. My first system was a Tandy Model I. You pretend to know much more than you do. While these kids don't know things from before they born I was there.
I worked at Radio Shack from 1983-1984 for a little while and they were around 1199.00 for the same computer and I think that set the price point for some computers like Apple Mac in 1984 was closer to 2500 for the basic core model before adding memory and upgrades which were not peripherals you could just buy but I think had to have them installed. but that was half the cost compared to a starting Apple II in 1981 of 4-7k -
2022-10-22 at 7:11 PM UTCWhere the original Tandy 1000 a cassette drive to install data?
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2022-10-22 at 7:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by troon You must have been annoying as fuck, back in the day.
lol you can't just wing it.
a lot of this shit was actually more when you got to the store because of demand at the time. it sucked because you would see a TV ad and it said Suggested retail cost but like a car, they would tax on some extra shit. or they'll say that was an order price which takes a few months to get in, and that an off the shelf has more core value or some shit. like it has extras or comes with extra software and then adds like 500 bucks to it. the more you could pitch it the more the salesperson got in incentive sales. -
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2022-10-22 at 8:01 PM UTCThe author of this post has returned to nothingnessThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2022-10-22 at 8:11 PM UTC
Originally posted by lockedin i'm amazed we managed to get HDDs working at all, much less as reliably as they do now at large capacities
impressive feat of engineering
Even the modems came out of the box requiring configuring before they could be used. And there was no instructions or usable information in the box. And you couldn't just look it up, because Google didn't exist. Browsers didn't exist. You had to already know what to do, or you weren't getting online. You had to use trial and error to set up DMA, IRQ, modem init string.. if any of that was missing or incorrect or in conflict with any other resources, you were basically fucked. The Scuzzy hard drives were even worse, because you had to use trial and error on a 4 or 5-pin combination of jumpers, which meant you could be trying hundreds of different combinations of jumpers before all the conflicts and errors would disappear. You could spend literally days installing one hard drive or modem correctly. And if it wouldn't install correctly, the problem could be any one of a thousand different scenarios.. the motherboard, the power supply, the memory, the compatibility, etc, etc, etc... you could easily spend weeks using trial and error and order of eliminations to isolate the actual problem. And then you had all your buddies and family who couldn't get theirs working and knew fuck all about anything, which was always a real pain in the ass. -
2022-10-22 at 8:13 PM UTCthat little plastic tif card with a gold plated guts is 16000 times the size of that rustbox looking wheel device
imgaine if technology was 100 years advance which means Hitler wouldn't of been of age nor the puppet masters he was under nor the people who shitted things up for us the last 100 years.
would it be other people shitting things up or is it possible we would be living in some sort of utopian society where you DID own everything you had and YOU DID love your life -
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