Subj : Re: Tandy 1000 TX
To   : Chris Coffin
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Fri Jun 26 2026 12:32 pm

-=> Chris Coffin wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 CC> You said it!  We didn't know how good we had it back then.  We do now
 CC> though. The 80's were a wonderful time in my life, and probably some of
 CC> the best times.  I remember thinking how "office" and "accounting" the
 CC> Tandy looked to me, but I started with a VIC-20, then C64, then C128.
 CC> I never did get an Amiga, and it seems I missed out on a lot of cool
 CC> things.  I set up my old C128 on a desk last week with a monitor for 80
 CC> col mode and a 1702 for the 40 col modes.  I've been using a WiFi modem
 CC> to get back into retrocomputing again.  There are so many fun things
 CC> being made by the people who grew up with the retro computers that we
 CC> are talking about.  Feels like fun times again.

The Tandy 1000 was built as a competitor to the IBM PC Jr. so it was meant to
look like a PC hence the "office" look.

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (which I still have).  I then went
to a Coco 2, then a C 64, then into Macintoshes, then into PCs.  I also have
dabbled in minicomputers and mainframes but that was several decades ago.

I do like how retrocomputing has gone mainstream and now people are activly
trying to preserve computing history.

I am setting up a FreeBSD system for testing of MBSE BBS software (I am on its
development team), but I am attempting to get a VT102 dumb terminal so I
can connect it via serial cable to the FreeBSD box for the "old-school"
experience. LOL

I am also an amareur radio operator so I love old-school stuff...I turn 54
next month so I am old-school myself. :D

-- Sean

.... Good moms let you lick the beaters.  Great moms turn them off first.

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