LGR - Restoring & Exploring a 1985 Tandy 1000 PC
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- Radio Shack's Tandy 1000 computer system is one of the great 1980s IBM PC(jr) compatibles, and this one needs some loving. Join me in getting this legendary machine back to better-than-new condition!
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To clarify the vacuum usage: I was not _vacuuming,_ I was only using a shop vac's compressor to blow air out of the nozzle and move loose dust chunks out of the way. Actually vacuuming computer parts using suction is a bad idea :)
Why is it a bad idea
Why is this? Is it because you can loosen/suck parts out? I used the hoover in the past!! Oh no!!!! I feel like I've commited a crime
Short answer: risk of static discharge and the potential damage to components
You suck. :p
Watching how smoothly that fan rotates when you were dusting it out...damn. Shows how well this thing was cared for in my opinion.
This is an awesome example of the Tandy 1000 from the looks of it!
I love seeing these old Tandy Computers, I remember going to my grandparent's house and they had 2 set up! When they upgraded my parents got one, and then when we eventually got a newer computer, the Tandy got to go in our bedroom! It was the first computer my brother and I got to consider as "ours" and even though it was already out dated, we loved using it to teach ourselves how to install games, play games, upgrade hardware, etc... even after we had computers blazing through the internet at top speeds of 56k, we still enjoyed the nostalgia and elegant simplicity of our Tandy 1000. Thank you for making videos like this!
Oh my god, this is it! When I was a young kid my grandparents gave us our first computer and I remember my brother and I playing the shit out of it. I specifically remember King's Quest II and Ghostbusters. As I got older it eventually broke down and we got ride of it. A few years back I found myself thinking of it but couldn't for the life of me remember what it was. I even reached out to my aunt and she and I thought maybe it was a Commodore 64. Then now I watched this and the second I saw it I knew this was it. I remember the round red button, the single floppy drive, the spiralled keyboard cord. Man this is so nostalgic for me! Now I want to track one down myself, lol.
that is a wonderful story. im happy for you. did you ever get hold of a tandy 1000?
So... I fell asleep in my chair to this episode. Not because it was boring, not at all. But because of Clint's calm and soothing voice.
J-Man Wilson lol
He should narrate audio books.
I have a playlist of sleep videos that are mostly lgr videos and those iceburg videos
@@captainghoul666 same i watch lgr for my wind down stuff. he's so calm. hes like a fireplace.
You can change the colors in that version of DeskMate, by pressing Ctrl-F1 through Ctrl-F4. And if you let it sit for 10 minutes, it has a screen saver -- not something you'd expect from a piece of DOS software from 1985!
I used to go into Radio Shack and type:
10 Print "Duh";
20 Goto 10
Run.
I would come back the next day and the thing would still be printing "Duh" on the screen endlessly.
Hahaha.
I do the modern day equivalent.
Make a batch file
@echo off
:1
echo *whatever you want*
goto 1
Half the time employees couldn't give two shits and don't bother to turn it off lol.
Duh
10 print "shit"
20 goto 10
Run
write:
10 print "an ibm employee was here";
20 beep
30 goto 10
40 run
RUN!!!
I think these restoration vids are some of my favorites on your channel and I don't know anything about retro computers
Glad to hear it :)
i know what you mean
i dont know anything about computers in general but i just love watching him clean and repair these old machines
same
me too its my favorite kind of videos
I'm just officially an old fart (!), I guess. All these vids are pure, honey-gold nostalgia to me. Everything LGR shows (outside of some of the cleaning techniques) is stuff I used to do routinely. Well, still do, I guess. I haven't bought a complete, new PC in a couple decades now - I think the last one was 1995 or so, and that was only my second one. My system just "evolves" over time. Of course, today nothing is the same as the original but the data...
I wish I had a Tandy 1000 story to share, but I don't - I was well into PC clones by then. However, I used your "favorite program" often, at the local Radio Shack stores. My friends and I would then watch and giggle as the store clerks went red with frustration because they had no idea how to stop their display computers from constantly scrolling "Radio Shack Sucks". :-)
I'm noticing the higher production/editing values on LGR's videos of late. Good job, LGR!
Thanks, an attempt has been made!
The Tandy 1000 can also be shortened to T-1000
T2
Just so long as it doesn't turn into a pool of liquid
That would cause confusion with the Toshiba T1000 laptop.
Perhaps it's generational, When I hear "T-1000" I think of the Pontiac econobox that was basically a Chevette clone. The damned jingle is now in my head: "T-1000, The penny pinching Pontiac!".😉👍
Guess it's better than saying "Trash-80 COCO", though I do miss mine, and my 1000, 1000SX, 1000EX. Hey LGR, do you have any 286 Epxress Card expansion boards for the 1000 series? Those were fun to mess with!
There's something oddly soothing about Clints voice...
Why oddly
Probably helps that he uses a good mic
I sleep to it when I'm depressed.
i sleep with this its great
Oddly erotic.
I grew up with a Tandy 1000. I wish I still had it, but this was an awesome trip down memory lane.
I've got fond memories of dorking around in DeskMate and pretending I had an actual schedule, and even fonder memories of Kings Quest II.
Thank you for sharing this!
My very first computer was a Tandy 1000, I received back in the 90s. My dad had a 386 prior to that, but sold it early on thinking he would get a 486 in the late 80s. He never did, and my family was computerless for my childhood ... all until a family friend donated his old Tandy 1000 and my dad gave it to me. Although the mid-90's at this point, I hadn't really seen much better and was excited to own my very first computer. My dad tried upgrading it with a hardcard, but it wouldn't fit - though he did have a dot matrix printer he did get working. Anyway, after getting bored of the few games it came with, I eventually stumbled upon that exact same Basic disk you showed in the video - plus a Basic manual. I had no idea what it was, but quickly gained interest as I started programming for the first time. I created a few simple programs, and even started a text based game. After years of fun, I eventually got a much more "modern" Packard Bell PC and mostly forgot about Basic. I got a Casio graphing calculator when I entered high school, only to discover a version of Basic-A - igniting my enthusiasm for programming once again, causing me to dust off that old Tandy and learn even more about Basic. I program Arduino's today, because of that Tandy.
You needed a "short" hard card for the Tandy 1000, on some there were two ways to mount the drive on the card so it would fit Tandy 1000 short slots and the longer PC slots.
Do you know MVI A,05H and MOV A,B ?🙄
I love the sound of these machines, makes me somewhat emotional.
Years ago I found an ibm pc at in a library near me so I asked at the city hall and now I got a free 5170, I can't believe it
Tandy 1000 was my first computer given to me by my mother-in-law in 1985. It is the machine along with Kings Quest 1 that began my enjoying gaming for over 30 plus years! It has always had a special place in my heart for gaming. I was fortunate to have 640 k with dual 5.25" floppies. After a few years I did upgrade it with an Adlib card. It was heaven for me for many years.
These particular videos are always so satisfying to watch.
Totally sweet. That was a decent price for that machine. The damn power button is just incredibly satisfying. Our school had a couple XT’s which were equally neat, but something about Tandy that made it seem easier to obtain for home users. I never knew that CPM came on the Model 4. I own a Model 4 and it came with TRS-DOS. I’m not exactly sure what it was based on. Not gonna lie, something about that PC speaker on the Tandy 1000 sounded great. It’s smooth. Like they turned down the high pass filter or something. Less harsh than most. Thanks for sharing as always!
The power switch on the original 1000 even lights up when you turn it on!
The PS/2 will forever live in my memory as the most satisfying computer power switch ever. And the sound of the fans and hard disk spinning up in sequence, made it feel like powering up a spacecraft cockpit (to me as a kid, anyway).
Just a note for the Tandy's PC speaker as you were referring to is actually NOT the PC speaker! There was a DAC on the motherboard for the Tandy sound which was an addon similar to installing a Sound Blaster, only the Sound Blaster when it came out much later was worlds better (which goes without saying :P). It had a PC speaker as usual and then another chip which was called the Tandy DAC and then later Tandy models had the Tandy 3-DAC which supported more "voices" than the original Tandy DAC in those builds. It was an actual sound chip included only in Tandy computers (obviously) and while it was still limited in its sound capabilities, compared to PC speaker it was incredible!
This original 1000 model does not have a DAC. That's only in the later RL/SL/TL models. The older 1000s have 3-voice audio.
If the TRS80 Model 3 could run CP/M (Mine did), Then for sure the 4 could. CP/M could even run on the Coleco ADAM (No, I'm not making that up, it was, Like our long lost TRS-80s, a Zilog Z80 based machine!). I'm willing to bet SOMEONE got it to run on a ZX-81 (Timex 1000), LOL!
LGR
Thanks for bringing us these amazing restorations of legacy PCs. Like some others have said these are some of my very favorite videos you do.
This was my first computer back when I was a kid. Thank you so much for covering this computer!!!
Thank you for taking the time to clean these relics. So many people show crusty old hardware on CZcams and it's just kind of sad.
Ooooh! It's beautiful!😍
I was employed by Tandy Australia for 15years working in their computer support division supporting everything from Model 1's to the entire range of Tandy 1000's and the range of Color Computers.
Is the Tandy colour computer a trs80?
An older man i know used to say he learned to program on a tandy colour computer. I have no idea which model that is.. Haha
@@Colt45hatchback They were called TRS80 Color Computers by Tandy, (or CoCos by users,) yes, but in fact they had no compatibility with the TRS80. For one thing, they didn't use a Zilog Z80 CPU like a real TRS80. They were more meant to be a home computer, whereas the TRS80 was a business machine. The Dragon 32 computer in the UK was a copy of the CoCo.
Oh right, that must have been frustrating with them both having trs80 in the name, getting software for the wrong model.
I know very little about the dragon32, I only know it exists due to youtube, will have to have a more in depth look, thankyou for your reply :-)
You know I picked you with a pin for about 0.1 seconds many years ago at Tandy Australia. You said "ow" and forgot about it. I'm sorry if it hurt.
Clint - I adore how in focus it is! Like..I can almost feel that plastic. Great work - been watching you for ages now and you're just the ducks nuts.
Great video. Reminded me of my Tandy 1000sl. First PC I upgraded myself by adding a memory chip to bring it to 640 k. It was my leap to the PC world from a complete C-128 system, what memories!!
640K Ought to be enough for anyone.... Uh Huh...
McInTEC well yeah obviously! Though its fun to get crazy sometimes. Like I recently built a machine to run Windows 98, and I went overboard with a whopping 768 MB of ram. Yeah! Crazy!
Mathew Dempsey my windows 98 machine sadly has a 128mb memory limit so a 256mb stick is still only worth 128mb
nice quote from Bill Gates
I run Windows 11 on 640K, but that's because of the nuclear war. I'm from the future, don't vote for Tim Allen.
Snopes looked into it: He didn't actually say it. It was just a common idea at that time.
Thanks for doing 4K
Loved this piece. Thanks and looking forward to more.
I love these videos! Every time I open up one, it’s like I’m walking into a fancy flea market. Your videos are filled with content and you have many videos! This is always my memory lane when I want to watch computer-y stuff. I really hope I brightened you’re day. Have a good rest of it. 👍
Man that sweet startup sound.
I just inherited a large horde of Tandy TRS 80's of different kinds including a mint condition 1000 SX great machines, great review LGR keep the videos coming.
Brad McCartney Wow nice score!
Oh man memories. I got one of these as a hand me down from my cousins, my aunt was kind enough to let me have their Tandy once they upgraded to another machine. At this point I had already had a NES so action games on this Tandy weren't going to impress me but those adventure games sure did. I loved Zelda but that world couldn't compare to Hero's Quest or Gold Rush. I was blown away by the amount of random crap you could make your characters do, from typing in pee at a bathroom in Space Quest to instantly getting a game over for typing kill priest in King's Quest. Haha To a kid who was only used to video games having A and B buttons with limited interactions it was wild just going through those adventure games and typing up all sorts of mischief. I also vaguely remember some pinball game where you could build your own machine.
Gold Rush ended up being my favorite and it was fun to be able to playthrough the game multiple times to see each path (never did beat the panama path)... ahh man. Gold Rush is one of those games I don't see people talk about much, if anyone wants an old adventure game to playthrough I would totally recommend it. Just don't forget: scurvy is a thing! I certainly had no idea until it was too late!
Your restoration videos are always my favourite.
So satisfying to see these old machines up and running again.
More please!
Hey boss, I'm going to take a 18 minute, 44 second break. I'll be back to work after that.
literally me rn
Same 😂😂😂😂
JHDK That's a long wank or shit....
TIL some places don't give lunch breaks.
Sweet, a LGR vid on my birthday!
You are so lucky to have the insight and brains you have to have allowed you to have the ability to get to do stuff like this. Man I wish I had a job like your's. This was another awesome awesome video.
All of your videos are the equivalent of a 1988 newspaper sales flier; AMAZING!
Uploaded just in time to enjoy the video during my lunch break 😊
Ed Judg, Probably Had A Moustache LOL
$1200 in 1985 was a lot of money. I was a teenager then and I don’t remember anyone having a home computer
Your videos are therapy for me. Love the classic computer sounds, love your humor and voice, just good times.
I just ADORE your youtubes, almost no matter what they contain. You do it thoroughly! Keep it up pal :)
must be Tandy week. both you and VWestlife put out Tandy 1000 videos.
7:17 - Nice bodge cap on the logic IC there. :-)
7:05 And the resistor bodged to the side of the chip "is a bit how you doin'" at the bottom. :D
lightpixel He wasn't in like Flynn with those screws tho.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I had a Tandy 1000 SX in college, and it was an amazing machine. Now I wish I hadn't gotten rid of it so many years ago. Thanks for all your top notch content.
Growing up with a Tandy1000, I have so much love for this computer! Based on your video, I'm going to look at cleaning up the model my parents originally bought in the 80s!
Farts program is the best program
I think that program STINKS ! LOL.
Computer: thanks for brushing my keys 😅
LGR: What the
f***?
This video was fun to watch. It gave me all sorts of halt and catch fire vibes. Looks like you had fun!
What a beautiful machine! And it looks like right out of the store thanks to all the cleaning you have done!
2:20 lol great edited :D
Thought you missed a spot on the CM-11. Then i noticed my laptop screen was covered in crap.
MY CHILDHOOD! So many awesome memories from this machine. Thank you for your channel, sir.
This video is so satisfying. Thanks Clint!
That is some crazy lagging on Lemmings. Even the clock is having trouble with it. If the sound is turned off, does that fix anything?
It helps but not enough to make it super playable. It's just a really slow machine not made for games that new.
Can the CPU be over clocked at all? By a couple of MHz?
maybe dropping in the math co-processor would be a fun experiment too.
The simplest solution would be to drop down to CGA graphics, which should quarter the amount of work the poor cpu has to do drawing the screen at a stroke.
I love magic erasers. I tell all my friends about them. They don't believe in my hype. Fools.
Grew up on a near-identical Tandy 1000. Programming in BASIC with dad and grandpa, playing Space Quest 1-3, King's Quest 3, Police Quest, Double Dragon, various shareware titles... NES in the other corner... this is my childhood and the reason I'm still slapping keys to this day. Thank you.
Pretty awesome synthesizer. I appreciate the tip again about the CompactFlash card hard drive and all the upgrades lots.
What camera are you using? The quality is amazing.
Thanks! I'm using a Lumix GH5 these days.
Nice. :-) I have a GH3. The M4/3 format really hits the sweet spot for DSLR quality w/o the crazy large and expensive lenses.
Thanks for the info on the 1 meg card. I've seen that for sale, but the seller never explained its use.
Beautiful to see more of this lovely old thing, and gosh seeing Zeliard always makes me super nostalgic.
Proud owner of a Tandy 1000 EX here. Loved the heck out of it. The 16 color graphics and 3 channel sound made it a great gaming machine.
I have found my new ASMR obsession..toothbrushing cleaning
Ah yes the classic:
10 print "farts"
20 goto 10
RUN
farts
farts
farts
farts
farts
farts
farts
The Tandy speaker output makes me think of the old Sega Master System's sound processor. So nice!
That looks gorgeous. It looks brand new. I need to find one of these someday... I had the Tandy 1000 SX when it first came out.
10 print "farts"
20 goto 10
What a fun stuff
7/32 what a nice fraction to make a socket in....*cough* metric system for the win *cough*
Those sorts of things drive me nuts too. For reference, it's right about 5.56mm, so if you have a slightly oversized 5.5mm socket, it might work.
Or just use some pliers.
Nah ya'll are being weak
6mm drill bit, self tapping wood screw.
I love your channel. I mostly love it cuz if i want to take a nap i just put on a playlist and have sweet lgr dreams
Nothing beats the startup sounds of the computer systems of the 80's! Very much agreed about the power switch! The old AT power supplies with the massive red switches are amazing! Great job at restoring! =)
Are you gonna upgrade to a 10Mhz 8088 and install the 8087 too? D:
not much point, It'd need to have a matching oscilator/clock or it'll still run at 4mhz and who knows what else that's used to clock?
There's not much you'd wanna run on a Tandy 1000 that will benefit from 10mhz OR an FPU except benchmarks.
Will the bus handle it?
I was wondering why he did not have an 8087 lying around to give a home to. Also I was wondering if a program had to be made to take advantage of the math co processor for it to be of any use.
Exactly - just because it has an FPU, doesn't mean that the programs are going to make calls to it.
If he's adding more RAM etc he may as well add the FPU, even if only a few programs use it.
I see someone bought that mouse at a military exchange :)
Oh yeah, LOL. I recognize the AAFES price tag from way back when.
When I managed the Radio Shack in Pacific Beach, California. I was close to all the 1000's on a daily basis. So much so later in life I ended up collecting every Tandy 1000 my store sold. Each one has a warm place in my heart. Great Video! On some great memorizes!
That is one beautiful looking machine. I never owned a Tandy myself, but I can easily remember starting up games and wondering what that Tandy thing might be that you could often choose from the menus. I was mostly a Commodore dude myself, but I often visited friends who's dads had more businessy machines where the Tandy name often came up while I was busy breaking them by snooping around system files, games and bioses... Because I knew exactly what I was doing of course. Sometimes.
Great video! I love these system reviews / xen cleaning ones.
That machine looks like it was barely used. No UV discoloration of the plastic, area under the key you removed clean, virtually no dust inside, etc. Did someone donate it or did you buy it on eBay, Craigslist, or ?
Bought it on Ebay, it was stored (boxed) for a couple decades and it was in great shape when it went in there. My unboxing video that I did a while back is the first time it had seen the light of day in ages!
the good ol days when Radio Shack wasn't a mobile phone store
Shelby sadly, it had to turn into one since 90% of its stock could be replaced with a smartphone.
There's none left around me. It really sucks because now I have to buy all my obscure electronic parts on eBay... It was nice being able to walk in and walk out with what you needed.
Your videos have brought me so much comfort and entertainment. Going to support you on patreon when my finances get out of the toilet, best I can do now is say thanks!
This makes me so happy. My original PC. I seem to be coming back to this video when I need some nostalgia. You very reverently clean this T1000 and it makes me happy.
What a beauty!!!... The computer, Clint! Not you ;)
Amazing video, as usual... When will you make a cr@ppy video, man?...
It's a Pixel THING what, you think Clint isn't beautiful? Shame on your cow
clint is a beautiful man.
1:20 Don’t buy IBM, you wouldn’t like me when you buy IBM.
When I hear the click clack of those sweet sweet LGR keys in the intro I know I'm in for a sweet ride. Great video, as always.
Glad you're having fun in the new year Clint.
Paku Paku looks like another game I've seen before but I can't quite place it......
Mario Bros
Yep! That's the one!
In the movie?
Bill Bixby.
Yep, had to pause the video to double check. Had no idea he did print ads for Radio Shack lol
Don't make him angry. You wouldn't like him when he's angry.
A very good-looking machine. I love the esthetics of the late 1970's and early-to-mid 1980's computers.
This was the machine I was first exposed to PC's on! Great memories.....I was enchanted immediately
SPACE QUEST!!
SQ2 - my first Sierra game... I was in love.
Yes my first space quest game I played was Space Quest 3 on the Tandy 1000. It was the first time I heard voice in a game blew my mind. Lol
Also Hero Quest was amazing.
Indeed. My first Sierra games were on a 1000 TX. Space Quest (1) and King's Quest II. I got King's Quest III, but my tiny kid brain decided that playing outside was better than dealing with a) that timer, b) the stairs and path, and c) those spells. It's cool though, I eventually came around.
The first voice I heard in a game was "Prepare to qualify..."
Strongbad's computer
O, geeky nostalgia!!! in 1987, my dad upgraded to a Tandy 1000SX from a TRS-80 model 4 in his office--right in line with what you mentioned about Tandy's upgrade path for their existing customers. It had a green MGA screen, ST-251 hard drive, 1.2 MB FDD, and I want to say 1024K RAM. Later, he installed a Logitech mouse with its own special ISA card to help run his publishing program, PFS: First Publisher. We loved playing MS Flight Simulator on that 1000, but we didn't have a lot of games in those days, so we missed out on the Tandy sound completely - this was a big surprise to find out so many years later! My dad bought a 386 motherboard and we tried to upgrade it, but the board just didn't fit the case and PSU, so we had to give up on that and get a new case. The Tandy 1000 was truly my first PC experience after the TRS-80 world. I loved the sound of that keyboard and seeing and hearing one again made my day. Glad to see you've added a Tandy 1000 to the gang.
Wonderful videos, love this channel! This reminds me of my one of my first summer vacation jobs working for RadioShack. I wasn't too impressed with the Tandy 1000, I had an apple iic that I enjoyed thoroughly!
I had the original Tandy 1000 as my first PC compatible. It was an upgrade from my Tandy Color Computer II. The 1000 was and still is my favorite PC I've used. Thanks for the video and the memories.
Great video as usual! Very informational!! thank you
Your videos are so relaxing for some reason
Thank you for sharing this awesome it of history. It truly takes me back
Glad to see you picked one of these up! Years ago I grabbed a 1000a and TX model both from a local recycler with cm11 and cm5 monitors. They have been the machines I have enjoyed working with the most. I think I paid 30$ for both to :) I grew up with a color computer 3 so I'm always drawn to Tandy stuff
I love how much time you take to edit your videos. I love you channel so much. Thanks for posting so often.
Thanks for watching!
I really enjoy your videos dude!
Agree with other commenters that your restoration videos are your best content. Very satisfying to watch. Also, from this video I am now obsessed with the Zeliard music and can't stop listening to it. Damn you.
What a great video! I had the Tandy 1000 SX. I souped it up with an 8087-2 coprocessor and a NEC V20 CPU. If you can find the 5MHz version of the V20, you can upgrade.
Oh man! Zeliard! What a flashback.
Thank you for this, I'm always so curious about the tandy/pcJr series of computers. I always saw them as video/ audio graphics options for them but had no reference. So interesting!
Man, this video really takes me back, the Tandy 1000 was my first computer. I used it from '85 until the fall of '91, when I started college and got a Mac. I wrote many a school paper in DeskMate's word processor, and learned how to program in BASIC and later Turbo Pascal. I still have the case nameplate, the motherboard and the innards of the keyboard-- I combined them together to make a memento I could hang on my wall. Still got the old DMP-130 dot matrix printer buried in a closet somewhere, too. It had an IBM compatibility mode you could enable with DIP switches on the back, I bet if I dug it out and got a USB to parallel cable it'd still work.
I gave my Tandy 1000 which preceded the 1000A. I manually rigged up an external 5.25" external drive and I installed a 3.5" internal floppy and an HDD, I don't recall the capacity. I really miss one particular game, Rocky's Boots. My children enjoyed using it as much as I did. Great show!