Important Announcement (MonkWerks)

[@ScottHaun]

what is that machine? I guess im younger than I think...

[@2adamast]

The first laptop as far as I remember

[@monkwerks]

+Scott Haun That's the Tandy 102, introduced in 1983, I believe. The first laptop, and it only needs 4 AA batteries.

[@MoTown44240]

That's correct.

[@uktony1525]

Father, you are missed. When will you be returning to KZbin ?.

[@uktony1525]

Father, you have been gone for a couple of years. I hope you are well and you are sorely missed. God bless you.

[@MrMarkpeggy]

We really miss you Father Thomas! May God bless you and be with you. 🙏

[@deborahking3284]

I had a Tandy/Dragon hybrid computer I High School in 1982 and was programming in BASIC just like this. Wish I still had it.

[@johnhunter1262]

When are we going to see more of the tear drop build? You were going so well. Cheers John

[@MRrwmac]

All my best to you and your loved ones for a Joyful and Merry Christmas. Hope you have a Wonderful Year in 2018!

[@designsbyphilip510]

And here I thought it was impressive I had a working original C64. My hats off to you!

[@monkwerks]

+Designs By Philip You've better graphics on the C64 than the 102.

[@sgsax]

Remember back in the old days when you couldn't just copy/paste from stackoverflow to write code? Those were good times. Mad props for digging out to old T102. I had one in my old job. Kept it on the "museum shelf" with the Apple ][e and Classic Mac. Put fresh batteries in it when we found it. Still worked great.

[@daydreamingarts]

you do not look old enough to remember tandy PCs! i can't believe it still works!!

[@stephaniegreene9217]

TEAR DROP TRAILER!

[@WorksbySolo]

Cool! Love the background music too!

[@DesignBuildExecute]

I love this! I still have a TRS-80 portable that was given to me. I cut my teeth on QBASIC and TI-84 BASIC.

[@monkwerks]

+Jason Rausch I learned the little I know on TI-BASIC

[@MoTown44240]

Me too. 102 was given to me.

[@DrCRAZYde]

I like Basic ;) i learn it many many years ago. Then i buy PowerBasic in the good old DOS-Times and make a lot of monney with it :) I programm the (An texas instrument calc) vic , c16 , plus 4, c64 , c128d and the PC in Dos

[@jlyonm]

Wait, which Maker Faire are you going to? World Maker Faire in NYC?

[@monkwerks]

+J.L.M. Bay Area this weekend

[@monkwerks]

+J.L.M. Bay Area this weekend

[@JunkworksGarage]

hope to see more vids and that all is well

[@mrkrasker9609]

Whats funny is that the computer that took the men to the moon has less power then that Tandy 102

[@monkwerks]

+Mr_Krasker it's not the size of the CPU ...

[@D0nK3yDon]

Was that a TI99/4A reference in the REM statement?! Wow! what a blast from the past. The TI-99/4A was my very first computer for Christmas, 3rd grade . I didn't know how to program, or even how to spell QWERTY, yet, but i stayed up until 3 am on Xmas night, one-finger peck-typing the BASIC example from the manual (it was a "guess the random number" game), but i could only find the LIST command and couldn't get the machine to run my code. I tried typing "GO", "PLAY" "PLAY the GAME", "CAN I PLAY THE GAME?",and whatever else I could think of for another hour The only reply I got was "Invalid syntax" which meant absolutely nothing to a 9 year old in 1982. Mom finally sent me to bed before I could figure out that you needed to type "RUN" to execute the code.. Next morning, I had a tear-filled meltdown , when I found out she had turned the power switch off("so it wouldn't burn the house down"). And I'd lost everything i had typed, because this was before I had saved up my allowance to get the upgraded audio cable , which could save the entire 256 bytes of RAM to "permanent storage" ...which was.a cassette tape! It sound like a modem, which you recorded on the cassette before you powered down, then played back to the computer to"load" from your "saved code" cassette, It was all so high-tech to me! LOL . Good times! Thank you for the wonderful dose of nostalgia, Fr. Thomas!

[@RobRobertson1000]

I'm impressed you can still write code. Super Geek!

[@Wordsnwood]

I thought I was watching the 8-bit Guy channel... ;-)

[@monkwerks]

+Wordsnwood (Art Mulder) That's right, I forgot he starts with those clickity-clackedy typing. Great show too!

[@johngilson7085]

Takes me back to my youth with my old computers of the early 80's. I had a Commodore VIC 20, 64, and later a 128. If I'm not mistaken, the Tandy was offered by Radio Shack?

[@davestrain1762]

OMG awesome!

[@tomaslainas695]

brought memories :) awesome

[@RowdyPenguin]

Looking forward to seeing/meeting ya!

[@simonforget280]

A working Tandy 102? Father, I have to confess that I am totally jealous... I'll do ten "Our father" for punishment. Keep up your good work.

[@monkwerks]

10 Prayer=1 20 Prayer=Prayer+1 30 Pray "Our Father" 40 IF Prayer < 10, THEN GOTO 20, ELSE END That will make it a little easier.

[@simonforget280]

😂 I really wanted to answer this Basic program with a single *NIX shell line. I'm just too tired tonight to get it to work. We are all eager to see the next update on the teardrop trailer project. It's a bit too tight for the schedule but that would have been great to see it this weekend at SF Maker Faire.

[@JustinLevine]

See you there!

[@havenisse2009]

Respect. Odd syntax with the comma before then

[@Certawin]

okay, dang I remember the vic 20, trash 80, pong, lol even a c64 portable. had a lil 4-5" color screen and a 5 1/4 floppy drive. And the tape drive for a regular c64. Chuckles damn I feel older than dirt... Lol like your sense of humor. That was good the coding for the prayers... How's the teardrop build coming along?

[@GibClark]

I wish.....