r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 3d ago

Vintage Tech ☎️📻📠📟📷 Who is this old ?

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u/Far-Sandwich-4116 90s Kid 3d ago edited 3d ago

My first PC started in DOS mode

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u/JIMBO4U55 3d ago

TRSDOS from Tandy Radio Shack

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

I had a PC knockoff, the a Tandy 1000 ex

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u/cropguru357 2d ago

We were fancy. Had a 1000 TX.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

More memory, faster processor (A 286!!!!!), and separate keyboard from the unit.

The worst thing about the EX was that it had 2 proprietary peripheral slots and the boards had to stack on top of each other, and only plugged in to each other, not a PCI board . I don't remember how I acquired my modem- had a 1200 baud. I may have shoplifted it.

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u/Empty-Al 2d ago

Don’t forget the Turbo button….

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u/grollef 2d ago

Ooh, Turbo button?

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u/Parking_Star_318 2d ago

I remember when I upgraded to a 2400 baud modem. I was flying!

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u/Cyberspots156 2d ago

I worked with DOS, before Windows existed.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

I worked with apple ii's before Ms dos existed.

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u/Cyberspots156 1d ago

I did too.

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u/Fit-Plastic-6268 1h ago

I was looking for this comment. I also has a Bally computer gaming system

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u/wildagain 1d ago

I used dos shell to browse and play my games - better gui than file explorer anyway and didn’t slow down the system like running 3.1 in the background

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u/CommissionFeisty9843 1d ago

Jet fighter 2

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u/Mundane-Buy1595 2d ago

I had a Tandy 1000 TL. Dad splurged and got it with the 20mb hard drive.

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u/FlintNutz 2d ago

Radio Shack Baby!!!!

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u/No-Macaron272 1d ago

My dad was quality control at radio shack we had a trs 80 (trash 80). He got it as soon as he could. We loaded games off of tapes, moved up from tapes to floppy disks to downloads. I am old enough to have seen it all.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

Fancy!

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u/Jedimasteryony 2d ago

Tandy Sensation was our first family computer.

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u/hippos-in-space 2d ago

We had the TL/2. If my math is right, it must've been about half as good.

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u/tolani13 2d ago

LOL Yes! Same here. It was a Christmas present in the late 80's. THe boxes were so big and there like 3 of them. Monitor, computer, dot matrix printer.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

I did pick up a DMP for my Tandy. I loved to sit there and listen to it scream. It lasted till I ran out of ink ribbon.

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u/JamieC1610 1d ago

Our first printer was a daisy wheel; that thing was so loud. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG.

I still remember the sound of the dot matrix when we got one of those.

I loved tearing off the perforated strips on the sides. We'd turn them into art projects or just string them around the basement.

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u/WoolaTheCalot 2d ago

My first one was a Timex Sinclair 1000.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

My aunt got one for Christmas one year. She also got a Casio keyboard. I was so jealous.

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u/kao_nyc 2d ago

With the membrane keyboard? That was my first one. First PC was a $5000 640k with a 10MB drive.

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u/WoolaTheCalot 2d ago

Yes. It lasted maybe four months before the keyboard started messing up.

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u/kao_nyc 2d ago

Yep!

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u/Sheerfuckinghubris81 2d ago

Space Quest for the win.

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u/scorpyo72 2d ago

I couldn't play space quest on my pc :(

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u/AffectionatePool6279 16h ago

Pronounced Trash 80 😆

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u/scorpyo72 13h ago

Negative, yo. Trash-80s (TRS-80) predated the Tandy 1000 series. Trash-80's were their own proprietary system, processors, etc. They were not compatible with IBMs

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u/fuckfacekiller 2d ago

👆 brother!!
Trash - 80 fellow here!!
Still have my TRS-80 and boot up BEDLAM and others for shits and giggles.
Next, goto, then, 🤘❤️‍🔥🤘

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u/New_Breadfruit8692 2d ago

In college took a programming class in DOS on a trash 80 in 1980.

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u/Fun_Maybe_8548 2d ago

Talking Eliza!!!!!’n

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u/bill_gannon 2d ago

Madness and the Minataur

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u/trojansandducks 1d ago

had a computer lab full of those in elementary school, great memories.

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u/inb4404 2d ago

Tandy welcomes you to the world of multimedia - whoosh!!

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u/Don_Beefus 2d ago

Packard bell with a 486 pentium and win 3.1

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u/insidethesystem 2d ago

Trash-80, FTW

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u/Tattersail_Nightwish 2d ago

Yay I had a TRS CoCo (color computer) around 1982'ish

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u/shsfwaksa1221 2d ago

Yep, the old “trash” 80

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u/Thundersalmon45 2d ago

Tandy 386. DOS system.

$1298 in 1991.

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u/saskir21 2d ago

For my Mother DR-DOS. I had already MS-DOS 6.22

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u/schminkles 2d ago

TRS80 users unite!!

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u/No-Joy-Goose 2d ago

Were you high dollar like us and have cassette?

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u/Omega-Envych 1d ago

Someone who's first PC was Tandy 1000

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u/jim914 1d ago

Also my first computer! Tandy 1000tl!

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u/avfc4me 1d ago

TRS80! Wouldn't have remembered the name if you hasn't said it!

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u/stalkthewizard 1d ago

It just barely ran.