Tandy 5000 - Radio Shack Product Announcement

Tandy 5000 - Radio Shack Product Announcement - April 21, 1988

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A highly polished product announcement video released by Tandy Radio Shack in 1988 with a focus on the then new Tandy 5000 MC.

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@Dietzebacher 4 жыл бұрын

17:24 ' - At John Roach's insistence we even investigated the Tandy proprietary unique subway bus - ' Wonderful Tandy humor!

@GenXCoder Жыл бұрын

I used to work at a Tandy Computer Center and got to play with a Tandy 5000. I wish I could find one just to say I own one! :)

@lucysam953 5 жыл бұрын

Tandy Corporation: "Quietly taking over a reasonable part of the market."

@retroguy4616 3 жыл бұрын

I plan to walk into a Tandy store today and purchase their cheaper 4000 model. It should have enough expandability for years to come.

@HerrinSchadenfreude 8 ай бұрын

How awesome is this? I was all Radio Shack from the Model III to the Sensation. And April 25th 1988 was my 17th birthday!

@jasons8479 Жыл бұрын

FT. WORTH - Radio Shack President Bernard S. Appel announces his own line of computers, the Appel PC.

@aCivilServant 4 жыл бұрын

11:23 Dr. John Patterson. Sounds like the living embodiment of Hank Hill. You sure he's not selling propane and propane accessories?

@justinnewton7366 Жыл бұрын

I had a Tandy back in the 90s to write a book report w/o an Internet connection...I used DOS and Windows 3.1 and it even came with a floppy drive... I didn't even know what the internet was or how it works...

@oldradiosnphonographs 2 жыл бұрын

Does anybody know anybody that ACTUALLY had a Tandy 5000 MC model computer or know if there are still surviving examples of these? I assume due to their cost not very many still exist in working order. But it would be interesting to se someone review this actual machine 33 years later rather than just remark on its price from the advertisement.

@McVaio 4 ай бұрын

They must be very rare. MCA never became popular and most units that had it were IBM machines.

@vwestlife 10 ай бұрын

Where was the rest of Bernard's body? Was he sitting in a hole in the floor? Strange choice of set design.

@HerrinSchadenfreude 8 ай бұрын

LOL I just looked up when I read this and saw and started laughing. He's literally half the man he was before this computer got developed

@untexan 7 ай бұрын

Generally your news desk should not be exactly the same color as your backdrop

@LarryRobinsonintothefog 5 ай бұрын

Was thinking voice synthesis from the TRS80 to my phone had improved much but I was wrong. Knew online voice synthesis was pretty good.

@rager1969 8 ай бұрын

I'd like to think I was fairly computer literate in the 80s, but I never really considered Tandy a real competitor. Even when I worked at Software Etc in 1989, I didn't give much thought to the labels that mentioned PC Jr/Tandy graphics or sound on games. Had I continued to browse Radio Shack catalogs in the mid to late 80s, would I have known how good they were? Maybe, but it's really something you need to see and hear in person, and Computer Chronicles wasn't doing that, nor were Radio Shack commercials. I could've spent the same money on a Tandy 1000 as I did building my own PC and had a better experience, but just didn't know.

@rager1969 8 ай бұрын

BTW, I was well aware of the Atari ST and Amiga 1000 and 500 and finally got an Amiga 500 in 1990.

@HerrinSchadenfreude 8 ай бұрын

They had 60% of the PC market in the late 70's and the Model III was the best selling computer of all time in 1980 when they still had 40% of the market despite the Apple II being out. They weren't exactly also rans

@iscariot666 6 ай бұрын

@@HerrinSchadenfreude My experience is similar to the OP; for whatever reason, Tandy always seemed low-end. You might say they were the eMachines of their day.

@LarryRobinsonintothefog 5 ай бұрын

During the time of the Model-1 I would type in programs from computer magazines and ordered Scarf Man through an ad, though later bought an assembler cartride for a TRS80 Coco.

@rager1969 8 ай бұрын

Damn it, didn't you read that warning the beginning? Copying or transformation of this video is prohibited!

@VapidSlug 3 жыл бұрын

Were you authorized b y the Tandy Corporation to copy or adapt this?

@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын

Were you authorized by Tandy Corp to view and comment on this?

@jessihawkins9116 Жыл бұрын

don’t worry I looked up all his Tandy / radio shack videos and filed copyright complaints and emailed radio shack telling them what has happened.

@ChatGPT1111 Жыл бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 Get a Life!

@VapidSlug Жыл бұрын

@@jessihawkins9116 thank you for your efforts, but i believe they can only be contacted via fax

@jessihawkins9116 Жыл бұрын

@@VapidSlug well crap, I tried they’re bbs but it was down.

@spageen 8 ай бұрын

Where is his lower body

@pcaetano7527 3 жыл бұрын

only $8999

@MrEd-qg8td Жыл бұрын

The 5000 uses the same case as the Tandy 3000NL. Micro channel was a flop as was OS/2

@johnathanstevens8436 8 ай бұрын

MCA eh? .... Well, they wanted to be cutting edge I guess and it was probably a while til VESA or PCI yet.

@samsawyer6127 5 жыл бұрын

The ghosts of Christmas past!

@LukeBarroso 4 жыл бұрын

Tondy could have took over

@0714will 2 жыл бұрын

😆

@jefft4629 Жыл бұрын

I hate to say this, but this looks like a college business case on how to fail as a business.

@jefft4629 Жыл бұрын

I'm sure there were worse spokespeople...

@untexan 7 ай бұрын

Taking non-executive management, who don’t have to do a lot of public speaking, and having them do on-camera narration is often a recipe for disaster