A 1985 Computer by Jay-el-Jay
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Last weekend,I acquired some electronic equipement with plans to tear them down for parts.Among the pieces,I found this old Tandy computer.It still works using 4 AA batteries.It should be in a museum somewhere.
Comments (30)
lyron
An historical piece. Cool shot!!!
android65mar
Wow, is that the screen?
durleybeachbum
Gosh! I had an Amiga.
tennesseecowgirl
How awesome, amazing it still works!!
kbrog
Back then I had a Atari 1600. :) LOL! How far we've come! Great find and capture!
stealthman
Yikes! Love it~!
alida
greatgrandfather of my computer!!!
Erestorfan
LOL! I remember those! And how expensive they seemed! The things we have now a days, even a 'simple' laptop was Star Trek stuff at that time!
blinkings
Wow thanks for posting this. I haven't seen one in years.
jocko500
now that is old. cool stuff you get. guess you be playing games now.
eekdog
what a fossil! i still have commadore 64 and 128 in storage.
Faemike55
I had an Atari 130XE - it got me through 4 years of college Great capture
NightGallery
Wow! Tandy! That's a name you don't hear much anymore. Was a part of Radio Shack right? Very cool thing to have. I would keep it esp. since it works.
magnus073
You are right about how amazing it is this little guy still runs Jim
renecyberdoc
awesome.a relict so to speak.
mikeerson
it's probably worth more working than in parts.
DennisReed
Cool Jim, I once worked on a Tandy! :)
KarmaSong
It reminds me of the TO 9 I once used with very much apprehension! A nostalgic and beautiful capture of a time when computers didn't rule over our lives...
carlx
Nice old machine!!!
Hendesse
This can already be declared "antique". Excellent shot!
A_Sunbeam
Nice to see; still works, eh? Great! I passed some of my really old stuff to a Museum of Computing. But I still have my old Facit "wind-up" calculating machine (and slide-rules, log tables ...)
danob
Blimey I have a few of even older vintage! One thing for sure computers have evolved to an amazing extent!
stolta
Wow, this is cool!!!
iaacf
Yes I think it should.. It is fascinating to see how thins has developed in a relatively very short period of time. Anyway, your photo is a nice reembrance of what once was.
emmecielle
Excellent image! :)
MagikUnicorn
I remember this time very good :) Computer without INTERNET in that time :)
danapommet
I remember these. Super find, capture and share Jim. Dana
clbsmiley
How cool!! Reminds me of some of the aged pc stuff I saw at NASA Space Center.
Chipka
Oooh, I remember these. I remember the 1980s...I remember when this was the look of the future as exemplified in ads from magazines such as OMNI: I was addicted to OMNI back in its heyday...great gonzo-style journalism dedicated to science and technology, fantastic interviews of scientific luminaries, and some of the best science fiction ever published. A lot of OMNI-published short stories are STILL highly respected now, especially stuff by writers like William Gibson. Anyway, this shot brings all of that back and I love the whole retro feel of this shot.
shutterbugs
oh man ... I remember using one of those back in the days.