Wow! Very nice machine! Old computer that can show history and size of CRT and mono / color and 5inch Floppy and Speed of old CPU. Old computer like you shows is very nice to coputer education.
I had a Model I as a kid, and I remember having Scarfman and Super Nova on it. I have seen documentaries about the kids that were behind Big Five Software, and they built up a nice 6-figure bankroll for themselves selling those arcade clones advertising in 80 Micro Magazine.
I pulled out my still working 4P today. The awesome intro to Attack Force @14:37 is a nod to the Si-Fi TV series "The Outer Limits"...20 years before the 4P came out. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FCcdr4O-3gE.html
Thanks for the memories! My Mom and Dad bought me a Model 4P when they were first available in October, 1983 so I could write programs in Basic for their business. My parents had a Model 3 and then added a Model 4. I upgraded my 4P by adding external modems up to 4800 baud. I also upgraded the Z-80 to a faster one and doubled the RAM and replaced the right drive with a 720K 3-1/2" drive that plugged right in and worked immediately. I then added an external 40MB hard drive which made it run very fast for the day. I also wrote a script for a terminal program that I had purchased that would dial numbers looking for other computer modems and log the numbers - I got the idea from the 1983 WarGames movie. Back then there was no Internet and we connected to dial-up BBS systems usually running on private computers like the TRS-80s. I now have 2 or 3 Model 4Ps in my house somewhere, but I have not fired up any of them in a very long time.
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I would have loved a hard drive for our Model 3 or 4's back in the day. I used to flip through the Radioshack catalogs and daydream about them. Far too expensive though, at the time no-one in the business cared that much about computers. I would maintain them but I remember one of my first PC repair mistakes was cracking the neck of a Model 3 CRT when I was trying to reassemble it after replacing a floppy drive. In my defense though they were quite a beast to disassemble and put back together as I'm sure you're aware. And I remember "wardialing" too, haha. I downloaded an app on my Tandy 1000 that would call every number in our area. Found a few BBS's that way. Anyway, try firing them up, I bet they still work, and they probably need some excersize :)
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I've seen one in working condition back in 1999, somehow it came over the pond to Europe! Lovely 1980's design! So much nicer compared to the ZX Spectrum clones using the same CPU (I know, different market targeting).
I'm continually amazed at how far the Tandy computers reached. From my perspective back then it was a Texas computer company and I figured most of them were sold/used in this region. Later when I was on the internet and started researching I was blown away at how successful they actually were!
It's quite easy to go in. For example there is a car garage on site. You can just say your going to have your car looked at. They will just wave you in.
I still use my model 4P once in a while. replaced the original diskdrives with Double Sided/DD white coloured drives that fit perfect with the cover of the 4P. Also had the capacitors of the power supply board replaced after I got the fantastic (and smelly) magic smoke of the old capacitors. Thanks for posting this video of your model 4P.
Still fun to use these old machines every now and then. I'm worried about the capacitors in mine as well, might swap them out in a future video. I also have an SD card "hard drive" for it that I'll be installing soon, will do a video on that as well. Thanks for watching!
I was half wondering if we'd see the reefa cap magic smoke out of this one. Probably a good idea to look inside it to make sure nothing is leaking all over the boards, etc. The tilted screen may be just because the yoke came loose on the tube or something.
@@Lilithe Was wondering the same thing as I made the video, haha. I'm definitely planning to check it out internally the next time I'm tinkering with it. Will be interesting to see the state of things in there.
@@MeLikeyTacos me personally, I perfer to see just a bit of the bike, that way you can see it moving underneath. But not so much we can't see upcoming obstacles. Just my preference!
Too high or too low? In the next video I had it pointed higher, do you like that one better? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wlQvkuVpuww.html
In the words of the Press Release by the Department of Justice U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of PA dated 3 July 2018: "Besides paying [$7,000.], Crow agreed that his license operating class will be reduced to Technician class for the next six months and agreed to discontinue contact with the individuals involved in this case." www.justice.gov/usao-wdpa/pr/local-amateur-radio-operator-agrees-pay-700000-settle-federal-complaint-violations Of the three component parts of the de facto Federal Court Order, the 3rd -- which chiefly originally involved and will continue to involve ME for the indefinite future -- will arguably be the most difficult for Brian CROW K3VR to fulfill.... For reasons why, if you don't know already, simply peruse: archive.fo/8PaKP [use archive.org/web/ to open links that no longer open automatically]
You have a great RX setup. What sort of antenna are you using? WW4D is one of the worst amateur radio operators I've ever heard. His broadcasts are noise pollution, plain and simple.
Sorry took a while to reply, I don't log in very often. I've been a condo-dweller for several years, so can't put up any awesome antennas. This one was a dipole I made out of 100' of 14 ga. speaker wire and strung up through some trees outside my 2nd floor window. It worked pretty well until storms came through and tore the trees apart along with the antenna. I need to get another one put up...
Bossy Guy Mike Have you heard The King of 7.200 Dan (K9RSY) and his posse of country bumpkins pretending like they are talking to Mike WA2VMX? It's hilarious!
watershed44 7.200 and 7.188 were a clutterbuck pretty much all weekend, and while I didn't specifically hear the gang pretending to talk to VMX, I do have amazing audio of someone who is NOT Joe Italiano AC9MV pirating that call-sign.
Fred 'Fucked-in-the-Head', here is the "paperwork", HI: transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0722/DA-14-1031A1.pdf transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2014/db0722/DA-14-1030A1.pdf Also, FYI I was the station being QRM'ed as noted in FN #11 in BOTH NALs.
Fred WW4Dummy is seriously fucked in the head.... He is a member of Brian 'Psycho' CROW K3VR's Gang, has been misbehaving in similar fashion on 14.313 MHz for over three decades, has trashed ~a dozen of his call-signs in the past decade alone and has been at least thrice censured by the FCC the latest being on 21 Nov '12: //transition.fcc.gov/eb/AmateurActions/files/Roll_13_01_05_5347.pdf //members.shaw.ca/ve7kfm/
@ohnoe40 Sounds like when I was 'trained' to run a Skytrak. "Hey, you know how to work this thing?" "Umm, nope." "Oh well get in and move all this stuff." It worked out alright though, I ended up being one of the best ops they had, lol.
@ohnoe40 OK so it's easy if you've been through the training, but it's still time consuming. Moving these sections around was such an ordeal that sometimes we had to plan our entire day around it. There is definitely some skill involved though, and it's just freakin' impressive to see something that weighs 60T being moved around.
