I have the Model 30, and Is amazing old maquine

The Model 1 is one of the tree computers in the Trinity of computers and is a important part of the personal computer history. I wish I had one in my collection

I had one when I was 20...I'm 56 now and still remember how good it was

I used the first of the Blueberry version on this iMac (next revision or two) which had the same puck mouse. When I look at pictures of the mouse now, it doesn't look like it would be nice to use. But I can confirm at the time it was fine to use. It wasn't awesome, but it wasn't bad enough to replace. I remember picking the blueberry colour because at the time, that was the colour of the Power Mac G3 and Studio Monitor, which I envied. I think a small part of me tried to pretend I had a pro machine. Wishful thinking.

Excellent video as always Terry. More than anyone else, you make me feel the most like I have the computer in question in front of me. There are some computers in your collection that I've never actually seen. But you take the time to show the ports, the underside stickers, the manuals (where possible)... everything. In my opinion, the Atari 800 was the best home computer at the time for games. But with each year that passed and new model released (the XLs and XEs) that lead quickly diminished. Games that were coming out years later were still written to be compatible with the Atari 800 and therefore weren't taking advantage of the extra memory of the later machines. This resulted in many of the big developers abandoning it in favour of the Commodore 64 (and some other 8-bit machines in certain countries). So yes it was ahead of it's time, which made the A800 a great machine, but it quickly fell to the wayside.

It was clunky but I loved this machine. It was the first home computer I ever had.

TEEXAS instruments? its Texas, like as in the stae of Texas

I owned a Science of Cambridge MK14 when I saw a TRS80 for the first time and of course was well impressed, however it was beyond the reach of my pocket at the time, so I went with the Sinclair ZX80 and like many others, soon realized I should have spent more money. I eventually went with the Apple ][ which I still believe was the best of the bunch at the time, but of course that put me in the 6502 camp and I still enjoy messing with those today, great fun. I'm retired now after a long career as a C++ developer on Unix systems, all off the back of these early home computers, a story I'm sure has been repeated by many in the industry.

Modeled after the IBM Selectric Typewriter everyone at the time learned on; it was total similar.

man... very difficult to understand your accent!!😊

I've never owned or even used a Speccy, but I understand its cultural significance and legacy. Retro Games Limited just announced a Spectrum replica computer they call The Spectrum, it comes with 48 built in games, many of them well known titles. I've pre-ordered one, it'll be available in November this year, I'm really looking forward to receiving it.

CAN THIS SE 30 CONNECT WITH A WIRELESS INTERNET??

I missed it , we had the same

I got a TRS-80 Model I in 1978 when I was 11. I pestered my dad for weeks to get one. Finally he took me to the Tandy shop but didn’t buy a computer, he bought me a book on BASIC. Although the book had a picture of a man using a TRS-80 the book was obviously much older, as it still discussed Timesharing using a Teletype terminal, but it taught me BASIC. I wrote some programs on paper and dad took them into the Tandy shop to ask the sales assistant if they would work, when the sales assistant said yes dad bought me a shiny new TRS-80 Model I with 4k of memory and Level I BASIC, so much of the BASIC I’d learnt wasn’t much use. After about six months we upgraded it to Level II BASIC with 16k and a numeric keypad. The Level II BASIC was great, so much more powerful than Level I, which, if memory serves, only had two string variables. I loved that TRS-80 and kept it throughout the 80s when all my friends were getting C64s or Spectrums. Thanks for the video, it brought back so many great memories of hours of playing text based adventures and Star Trek. Brilliant!

I used one of my TRS80s to run the BBS Techlink. I was also a node on FidoNet.

The expansion issue was taken care of with the buffered interface shortly after, and of course the gold edge connectors

You forgot the built in tape checker.

i only want this just so i can make 079 in real life fr

What is odd about BT adopting the OPD as the Merlin Tonto, which I imagine prompted the machine's adoption in Australia and New Zealand, is that BT also had the M2105 messaging terminal in its Merlin product range which was based on the Acorn Electron and had similar capabilities, although the interface seems to have been rather specialised on the M2105, employing a command-driven rather than menu-driven approach. The M2105 also had a speech chip and could answer calls, but the supplied software seems to have only supported a fixed repertoire of parameterised voice responses. In principle, the M2105 could have supported connection to online services, as the related Acorn Communicator did, but it isn't clear whether delivered machines had this capability: it would have been a matter of fitting a terminal emulator ROM. Being an Electron fundamentally, there is likely to have been a BASIC ROM built in, too. Alongside these in BT's range was the QWERTYphone which was apparently developed as a simpler alternative to the OPD. All three of these machines could supposedly exchange messages using the same protocol, which was presumably a BT technology. So, in fact, the Computerphone could have been communicating with more than just other Computerphones (or OPDs/Tontos).

Yep. My OSI Superboard II with the 24KB expansion board drew so much power it heated the room! No D in your boot option looks weird. Shouldn't every Challenger display D/C/W/M? I ended up modifying an RX01 8" floppy from a PDP-11, and got it to work at 480KB/per side! I seem to recall paying almost $20 each for the 512-byte 2114 memory chips!

Rather odd to have gone through the trouble and expense of adding an after market audio out port. Because you could use a standard Radio Shack computer cassette drive as a speaker. And even if you didn't have a tape drive, you could separately buy the Radio Shack computer cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207, $5.95 USD), one end of which plugged into the cassette DIN port on the computer and the other end of which split into three tips, one of those three being ... a standard audio out plug that could be inserted into any speaker. So for under six US dollars you could get a de facto adapter letting you hook up the Model 4 (or III for that matter) with just about any speaker. Or, if you preferred, to a female-female adapter ($2 or less) so you could plug in headphones.

I had one early 80's and learning programming on it. Self taught and later certified. I wired my own Magnavox joystick to it. I also rewrote the Char$ to entirely different mappings to create a map of a local inhabited island that we camped on to use with my joystick in 16 colors... was spectacular for the time...

I told you before and I tell you again: STOP TISKING !!!

@1:20 -- I can feel and smell the plastic of each one. Wow! Flashhhhhhback!!!!

My mate got one of these for xmas back in 1981 back in Sheffield, UK - our family couldn't afford it. I'd have been 9 years old and I was hooked from the first program entered on that squidgy keyboard! Fast-forward 43 years and I'm still working in IT, albeit on the other side of the world in Australia. Eventually he upgraded to a 48K ZX Spectrum and our school got the BBC Micros, so I didn't have to put up with that keyboard too long haha. I ended up being the unpaid computer expert at my secondary school, since the teachers were out of their depth!

My 2nd. First being TI-99/4a.

I still have mine from the early 80’s. I hooked it up to a plasma tv about 5 years ago. I remember staying up all night as a kid typing code from the books. Half the time it didn’t work but was fun anyway.

After the conversion of "Aardy" I would love to see R-Type, Giana Sisters, Zack McKracken, Feud or something else like that running on the Colour Genies RH... I do quite some average programming (assembler) on most systems, from the VIC20 over the C64 up to the underrated plus 4, on atari xl like MSX and of course the spectrum... Nowadays Im getting mad with my TI99-4a - beginning from the strange basic to its memory sharing issue... But: It is a real nightmare to create half way modern games on the EG2000 - I even fail to get an assembler for years now - and dont try to use its basic... Does anybody know how to get this 8-bit dino to show some more of its capabilities? I failed there - did you succeed? Where is here the specific demo scene? Rock bottom, it seems quite easy to have a Laser/Dick Smith Computer playing digital samples compared to scroll a screen on the Colour Genie... Thanks for uploading!

The Soundcard is a Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum 16. May the connector is a 50pin. SCSI-Port

My first home computer and still the best 8bit in my opinion.

I still have one of these lying around... Kaypro 4 with the blue keyboard from the Kaypro 2. Because I found it at Goodwill for 30 dollars without the keyboard ;) still works

I had one of these, my uncle passed it down to me in like 1984, and I played Parsec on it nonstop, and I am pretty sure I wrote some simple BASIC on it as well. I never really had a way to follow my tech interests super far as a kid but I wish I had. I also had a Commodore 64 later on. I just turned 49 today and I downloaded the Classic99 simulator and had fun with that today. Fun memories.

Love your channel!

The PS/2 is pure nostalgia for me. I took a keyboarding class in tenth grade and this is the machine we used. Loved every moment of that class.

The prompts were not annoying to me at 15 years old. High School had one computer for the entire student body in the computer lab. I stood in a line across from a second line to purchase mine. I took it home with the tape deck and played Pirates Cove and Hangman. The second line was for Cabbage Patch Dolls. I bought the discounted computer and played and always remember it fondly. I'm glad, you took the time to share. I might have been 14 years old if I bought it in 1981. ❤🎉 God Bless you 💖 TRUMP 💜 2024 FREE Steve Bannon FREE the January 6th Hostages 💜 Keep men out of women's sports 😮 Keep boys out of girls locker rooms 🎉

Got the 400 mini, its been out a few months, it is a cool item.

The Amstrad cpc 464 was my first micro computer back in 1984. I have still got a working unit and I gets regular use I absolutely love the machine. Great video👍🏻😎😂.

Hi Terry, just found your channel and this segment on the 99/4A. Back in the day I was the programmers at Sierra On Line responsible for adapting the title Jawbreaker from the original Apple II platform to the TI. I fondly remember writing the code in 100% assembler. Many of the other programmers on the team were quite envious that I had the "luxury" of 16 bit registers to work, while they were confined to the 8 bit CPUs of the day (6502, Z80, 8088). The TI did make use of SPRITEs using the TMS 9918 VDP (Video Display Processor). Collision Detection (when two sprites merged) was built into the VDP registers to make it easy to detect when one object hit another (genus!). The VDP was great 8 bit processor in it's day. Was also found in the MSX series computers worldwide. Jawbreaker made use of a unique sprite mode of the 9918 which leant itself weill to the larger format of the spinning faces used. TI kept a "closed architecture" on the production of ROM cartridges which helped to limit 3rd party game development on ROMS. They insisted that that if a game were to be developed on Cartridge it would require a license from TI. Perhaps why there are so few 3rd party programs on cartridge. The cartridges made use of special ROMs (Graphic ROMs or GROMs). Commodore eventually drove the industry to its death to the benefit of the customer.

4:10 You called the PS/2 pizza box and now I can’t unsee it.

This was my first 'personal computer', a surprise Christmas present from my mom which was a heavily discounted closeout featuring all the peripherals. As they say, "You never forget your first".

I doubt you will see this, I'm a few months behind. I own a Tandy trs-80 with three monitors, two expansion drives, a ton of games and programs on floppy .

about 4 months ago or so, I was looking around on youtube and stumbled across this specific video. i remembered having this old IBM computer as a child, my earliest memories of my life are actually of using this computer my father had bought, it cost a lot at the time. I remember when I was 4 years old i found a disk in my dads computer area called Mixed Up Mother Goose and my dad loaded it for me and let me play. I feel like thats when life began, with me flying into this world on a large goose to solve some mysteries and have some fun before i departed. anyway, your video sent me down a rabbit hole in which I had to have this computer back. it took me a few months but using ebay, I found a 5153 monitor, the IBM 5150 itself, a hercules CGA card and one of those mechanical keyboards and several old games I remember playing as a kid like the Sierra quest series. the monitor is still in the mail, I hope it arrives safely. Anyway, i wanted to thank you for inspiring me to get the computer back, it means a lot to me. its a physical manifestation of my childhood and now that i understand more, Im having a great time learning about stuff like exploding tantalum capacitors, unlubricated disk drives and anything and everything about these wonderful units. Had a brother in law from Hamilton in New Zealand, he passed away unfortunately. your accent reminded me of him. Thanks again my good sir 👍

History lesson thankyou😊

The CPC464 was my first PC. I learned to code with that (excellent) manual. Later I upgraded to a 6128 and I'm still having fun with that today. As with the C64 and ZX Spectrum, the homebrew scene for the CPC is still very active. Not only are there plenty of great new games and demos coming out every year that really show what the hardware can do when pushed to its limits, but people have also given it a multitasking graphical OS (SymbOS), and there are hardware expansions available to add extra memory, hard drive, wifi, cartridge support, dual sound chips and other fun stuff. And then of course there is the CPC Plus range...

I love my Kaypro 2X but I have a 4 also and though they look the same none of the software will work between them, even software from Kaypro is not compatible between machines. I think that was a big mistake on their part, I wonder how many people had a Kaypro 2 and got the 4 only to find out none of their software would work on it.

It would have been so great if i would have had one of these when i started high school, but that would be nearly impossible for my parents at those prices and the machines limited capabilities. We really do have it good these days.

Atari acquired the rights to distribute Space Invaders, but apparently allowed the programmer to "improve" on it with his own ideas. Supposedly, he wanted to adapt it to better use the horizontal orientation of the TV screen compared to the vertical orientation of the arcade version. If you want a more faithful (but unlicensed) version of Space Invaders for the 8-bit Atari, Roklan's Deluxe Invaders is great. It's plays just like the real thing. Oh, and the 400 was also my first Atari computer. I was 26 when I bought it in 1982. I considered an Apple II, but they were four or five times the price. What sold me was Star Raiders.

fun fact: My neighbour’s father worked on the marketing material for this PC. The one in the commercial, with all the software, he took home to his son, so we had all the games. We played the hell out of it. Hunt the Wumpus was my favourite for some reason. :)

Thank you for sharing. Should try to find Star Raiders for your collection, too. 😊

Colour screen eh? Fancy!! Mine had the green screen version.. Still awesome to 12 year old me though until I got my first Amiga.