80's Radio Shack Color Computer Commercial

[@fawdown]

A kid having fun with a math program. Yes definitely in the 80s.

[@belartful]

loved sticky bear back in the day, best educational programs :) now days they... are just too pre-school (abc mouse wtf?)

[@jaydonovan2025]

TheNauseator more 2010s

[@katbowen93]

90s too...

[@pechondelgado]

Bro don't you talk shit about Mavis Beacon....

[@indianapatsfan]

Well it's about time. I've been using a Radio Shack black and white for years.

[@SENTRY000]

I remember this commercial. I bought this for my brother...damn it was expensive and really high tech for its day.

[@wantq2000]

i used to have that..kept for over 10 yrs..wish i still had it..lol

[@Tapewormz]

My friend had one of these. It was a pretty great computer. I had a c64 which was also a great computer. We used to make basic programs and submit them to rainbow and computes gazette and even had some published. :)

[@flyinbantito]

my papa bought my dad a 64k color computer and he still has it!

[@JMacNJr]

I still have my Coco-3 and I still collect the cartridges for it. Boost up way faster than my modern desk top.

[@alexabadi7458]

Yep, and internet on Coco-3 is also much faster ! ;o)

[@algorithmae]

"With over 100 applications to choose from..." I looked at my phone and suddenly got very pale at the thought...

[@BigRed4231]

Nothing compare to your first PC, you never get that feeling again. Mine was a 200mzh cyrix cpu 32mb ram & 2 gig hdd with Windows 95.

[@EricStringer]

The Color Computer 3 had other options you could also buy not listed in the video, Printer, Modem, Floppy disk drive, expansion port, Hard drive, X10 lighting control . You could also run a version of Unix called OS-9, which allowed Multi-tasking and windowing OS. I ran a BBS on my Color Computer, created a Laser light show hardware for it, real time video digitizer.

[@tsbrownie]

Mine was silver. I raised the memory to 64K (not M). I added dual 5" FDDs, replacing the tape recorder storage. I bought their 300 baud modem, later upgrading to a 1200. Brother daisy wheel printer. AND I used a dedicated TV as a monitor! Good times. Good times indeed. It was replaced by an AT&T 6300 with 512K (?), a 20 MB HDD (card at first, then a discrete drive), 1.44/2.8 MB floppy, math co-processor, and the best keyboard I have ever used. The motherboard was mounted upside down in the bottom of the case, and about every 6 months you had to re-seat the RAM chips. 9600 baud modem. The color monitor weighed as much as a '68 Buick.

[@ueberRegenbogen]

Lean into that joystick! (Reminds me of a friend's little one mangling my somewhat fragile semi-home-made stick on my A2. Oh well. The rebuild was a bit more durable. And he learned a lesson in the form of being unable to continue playing the game with the crippled stick.)

[@malad1]

But then in those days a disk drive and Monitor were a real luxury!

[@BaarBear]

I had my coco through my college years. Was a comp sci major and did some of my school work from home on my beloved CoCo. It always blew my mind that my dinky little CoCo could communicate with the college's almighty DEC VAX system.;-D

[@willdav713]

I remember getting that for christmas of 1988, 20 years ago. It broke about 1 year later or something like that.

[@ipKonfig]

this computer was the most technology Radio Shack has ever seen

[@walkerbrown8591]

It hooks up to your TV!

[@roachtoasties]

Looks cool. I'm heading to my local Radio Shack right now to see if I can still get one. :)

[@58twright]

have fun with that lol

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I need to get some batteries. Just found my Battery Club card!

[@sonicnaruto12345]

cant wait till this comes out!

[@jeremychildrey6357]

Now everyone has a super computer in their pocket.

[@TheOldGunslinger]

That football game looked pretty wicked.

[@axe863]

Omg... i cant wait to get one !!!!!!!

[@pasqualsalaz1130]

I went RadioShack and they didn't have these in stock! They must have sold out already!

[@alexk8792]

They don't make them anymore

[@jeremyc9593]

@@alexk8792 Wow. I'm not one to ever use the word facepalm, but I'm not sure if I've ever seen a better example than this. It's actually pretty hard to fathom that someone would actually say what you just said. You missed the mark by about 80 million light years.

[@alexk8792]

@@jeremyc9593 Lemme guess, he was being sarcastic.

[@johnfoltz8183]

All they had were Coleco computers there.

[@ArtimusDragon]

dammit. now I'll never know what that Disney commercial was for.

[@Timbrock1000]

Yeah, sold out 30 years ago.

[@ecv03]

A VHS

[@victorkd9926]

RIP RadioShack, you will be missed by

[@Nightweaver1]

Zoomers: What's a Radio Shack?

[@DoomDarenxbourg]

If it wasn't for these computers, what we have today WOULDN'T exist!

[@Makron5]

Wow I gotta get one of those. Those games look hot as shit!

[@Kelsie154]

lmao. my dad found one of these in our basement last year.

[@762BR]

FINALLY! A machine capable of running Crysis!

[@BDPlaythroughs]

RadioShack's Color Computer 3 comes with everything that you see here. Oh, you say you wanted a computer monitor? Too bad! You have to buy that separately!

[@cybermarsactual]

The best graphics are on the box!

[@runekey]

Back when radio shack was any good.

[@BillBallistik]

Yeah that math tutor was the biggest blast I ever had in my youth.

[@dabeanne]

*Only legends remember Radio Shack*

[@renekenshin6573]

Now that's old school

[@alexweb8]

I would totally sacrifice all the new technology like facebook and youtube to live in a nicer world.

[@doddsino]

Guarentee this Radio Shack computer goes faster than anything Walmart sells. :)

[@comedygirl92]

Wow! We've updated!

[@richard1972r]

Back to the nostalgic times when Radio Shack was about selling computers.

[@dave4shmups]

@Watcher3223 I miss their brands too. But I'd still rather go to my local Radio Shack then a mega-electronics store, where the customer service is much less personal. The manager at the Radio Shack near our neighborhood is very knowledgeable and not pushy.

[@benny2700]

I had one, including the tape recorder for storing programs... yes... a tape recorder...

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I had a Trash-80 I got from a thrift shop, and the cassette player to go with it, good stuff.

[@Kevbox2008]

I remember that commercial!! :^)

[@HSOUIXZ]

I owned a Radio Shack CoCo..I up graded from a Commodore Vic 20...Man I thought I had arrived! LOL The Vic 20 had 4k of memory. The CoCo had 64k...the 128k Now my phone has Gigabyte memory...Those were the days. Good times...Good times. (small tear..sniff, sniff) Compuserve Cb...and People-Link Lol Good times.

[@KaliGold]

That some next level gear they got there.

[@duncanrcameron]

I remember the screech of the cassette as I loaded games like "Inner Sanctum" & "Iron Eagle".

[@BlueFluidStudios]

Dang, look how far we have come, 10X smaller 1000X faster haha.

[@tamagoMMA]

Jeff's mullet for president!

[@EdgarVega151]

Yes what an awesome book report all green and black! and Jeff is having a BLAST with his math tutor!

[@PlasmaCoolantLeak]

I had a blast with my German tutor. Especially when her husband went on those long business trips. 😁

[@dsargent724]

HEY EVERYONE!! More videos on the way as soon as I get my Betamax VCR up and running!! -Dsargent

[@sherryhannah498]

@dsargent724 bring it on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@ZeeJeff]

I'd like to go back in time with a tablet computer in my hands and just proclaim "Screw you, Elliot and your Radio Shack personal computer! I HAVE FRUIT NINJA--I HAVE BLUETOOTH CONNECTIVITY--AND PORN" And everyone in the land would come far and wide to see the boy with the magic tablet and laugh at Elliot and his petty shitbox.

[@marlinlee]

Actually the CoCo 3 originally sold for $219.95. Of course a disk drive was another $299.95. And if you wanted an RGB monitor it was another $299.95.

[@canadude6401]

Legend has it that Bill Gates played Math Tutor, while Steve Jobs played games. They both did alright.

[@ecv03]

As globalist.

[@seanhudsonforester]

And when they got older, they used their computers for other...um..ventures of enjoyment...

[@Sashazur]

I had the color computer first gen. The metal joysticks felt tingly! They were actually pretty good computers but the commodore 64 was available around the same time and was more popular.

[@lightningbuster]

The ironic part is that I have a brother named Elliot. Growing up I was always the outdoors kid and he was always gaming on the computer, always. Like non-stop.

[@adogg619]

Color computer!!?? Holy shit, who would have ever thought?

[@sycomania134]

the first thing elliot was using looks like some kinda nuke tracking radar

[@SamuraiClinton]

this is better than Atari 2600. You might think that Atari 2600 is a "game console", but this is the REAL DEAL.

[@buhe1]

I still have that computer stored up in my parents' house.

[@cakestalker]

Intrigued by the graphics and impressive software library, I called radioshack to ask about their color computers, but the guy I called to seemed to not know what I was talking about. What horrid customer service.. they don't even know the products their selling! :(

[@zzxxqqrr]

Oh boy! The computer is finally in color!

[@8492grob]

we dont have any radio shack stores here in the uk we still have stream driven wireless crystal sets lol!!!

[@mwittmier]

Found one of these today with like 10 games and all the stuff was thinkin about playin some space assault

[@CJMorillo]

ZOMG!! Math!! What fun!!!!

[@Snipereye64]

ah man, that math tutor game looked awesome!!!!!

[@fubukifangirl]

I wonder what these kids would say if they saw one of today's computers?

[@UL439]

Looks like the great USP back then was the "colours" bit, Commodore was making a big fuzz of it as well. Makes sense considering that high end puters were all monochrome.

[@Feewaybill57]

The heck with the iPad. I'm getting this.

[@TheAwesomeAsian72]

These kids are gonna shit bricks when they see the games we play nowadays

[@uzaiyaro]

I hate these people saying "Haha my computer is better than that." Technology has something called "change". Current computers can be easily doing 200 times as much work.

[@Snipereye64]

thanks

[@moezilla68]

wow, my first pc was a color computer 1...this stuff is equal to the commodore 64 i got later. Elliot's havin' hisself a ball!

[@sneakers55]

The next thing I bought after a CoCo was a CP/M 80 machine. There were a few inexpensive compilers for CP/M and I taught myself a few languages. Wrote some glue logic in FORTRAN to accept a comma-separated list of transactions and generate a spreadsheet that looked like a DOME BOOK.

[@maxwillson]

Hey Radio Shack! The 80s want their store back! Ahahaha!

[@6PBP6]

Back then, my friend, computer porn was lines and lines of character print, printed off on a "line printer", that when viewed from a distance actually looked like a naked woman.

[@vjrei]

I remember buying software that never worked. If todays software comes full of bugs imagine back then when there was not a culture for it.

[@ElementaryPhysics]

@bestamerica No, at that point Tandys were just Tandys -It wasn't until later that Microsoft made computers that allowed you to install different OS programs

[@oad51]

My first computer was a RS color computer (CoCo) purchase in 1980 with a whopping 16k of ram for $899.00. Can't believe my wife let me buy it...

[@678BUMPERLOVER]

it looks nice

[@Dragonclaw23]

Hey that does look like a lot of fun yey

[@ChromeJob]

I miss my old CoCo3.... :_(

[@jhazemusic]

low-def all day baby

[@Snipereye64]

back then, a laptop was as big as a truck

[@lolipopus]

at 0:23 Elliot is like.. "FUCK YES!!!"

[@sonick808]

hah. Elliot probably wrote a popular piece of software, bought a big house, a couple ferraris and is banging models.

[@tomgreen1721]

that kid had a mullet and now his kid has a mullet

[@Joujojus]

Behold the future has landed!

[@tigerboy1227]

how can you have a blast with a math tutor?

[@cnoyes72]

@HoneycombAgent , 128KB (or, 131072 bytes of RAM), though Radio Shack did sell a RAM upgrade that would take it to 512KB RAM (a fairly large amount of RAM for 1986).

[@bttwgtw]

yep this was the main competitor of the commodore 64

[@Hiraghm]

@wellivea1 - doing the straight math, most phones are 600-1000 mhz. IIRC the CoCo was somewhere around 10 mhz. That's where I got the 100s from. But, yeah, thousands is probably closer to reality.

[@ZeppelinFan70]

I'm still using this computer as I write this. I'm upgrading soon to a Commodore 64.

[@DanaTheInsane]

@weswii I was a teenager when this was a new ad. I sit home and play WOW too......

[@ThunderFist1978]

My first computer was a step down from this - a TRS-80 color computer 2.

[@sonick808]

holy shit i remember this commercial!!! beautiful nostalgia!

[@Rorduruk]

"Over 100" pieces of software available. Now, people think an app store with less than 100,000 apps is not competitive.

[@jazz21aa52]

it that still works today(i hope it does)that'll be more mobile than a laptop if places with public televisions allow plugin t.v. stuff and it wont even need charging.

[@zomgthesoftness]

Who needs Crysis when you can play Super Pitfall?

[@FsimulatorX]

OMg look how small they are compard to our big desktops