Our Old Panasonic Computer Was a Tandy

#tandy #retrotechnology #computer I’ve been looking for a Tandy.. er.. Panasonic Business Partner like the one that was our first VGA-enabled computer back in 1990. But they’re kind of scarce. So I got the machine behind the badge - a Tandy. Specifically a 2500XL. And this seems pretty close to what I remember... I think. 00:00 Usual excuses for not finishing the 1974 Terminal video 00:57 I’m not collecting x86s. No. Really. 02:36 I want VGA 03:44 The Tandy we never knew we had 08:38 Looking over my Tandy 2500XL 11:38 Opening it up 11:56 The Tandy Lander 12:17 Tour of the inside 13:27 Replacing the Dallas RTC 17:15 Reassembling and firing up (attempt No. 1) 18:58 Hard Drives and BIOS troubles 27:44 Reassembling and firing up (attempt No. 2) 28:38 Death of a Floppy Drive 30:10 Ontrack(tm) at last 30:48 Reassembling and firing up w/IBM 8513 (for the last time) 32:50 Ski or Die 38:09 Mean Streets 41:15 Test Drive 3 41:56 PC Paintbrus