Tandy Color Computer Mascot
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4 ай бұрынWe build "Dr. TRS-80," the anthropomorphized Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer featured in the original manuals. There is a montage!
#retrocomputers #retrogaming
@VeronicaExplains 4 ай бұрын
Dr. TRS-80: the only AI we'll ever need.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
I, for one, welcome our robot masters!
@AJGriglak 4 ай бұрын
I grew up hating this mascot guy.... And, I spent hours typing in random stuff from those manuals. Today I love that mascot guy - this may be the best thing I've seen on KZfaq.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
The bestest!
@marksuper4920 4 ай бұрын
Look, Amy dropped an amazing dad joke ("Well, that's better than the impractical guide...") and everyone is refusing to acknowledge it. I can't let that go on. That joke was brilliant! (Also- great video. Nice work!)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Lol! **bows**
@TheREALJosephTurner 4 ай бұрын
"Way better than the impractical guide." I just spit coffee all over my desk! P.S. I can't be the only one that wants an entire Taylor & Amy music album...
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
At this rate we are working up to enough songs for one!
@anjanettepetty-kountz3785 4 ай бұрын
I could listen to you ladies sing all day long 😉 Congratulations on the newest member of your family 😍
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Isn't he a peach?
@GeoffSeeley 4 ай бұрын
That was some precise CNC steak knife work! lol.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
I'm basically a pro.
@cpm1003 4 ай бұрын
I loved the song! 😊
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Hooray!
@GarthBeagle 4 ай бұрын
Congrats on receiving your KZfaq Play Button! (some assembly required)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's such an honor.
@pic101 4 ай бұрын
Best 13 mins I’ve spent in ages. The music was the coup de gras. Magnificent.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Hooray!!
@CurtisBoyle 4 ай бұрын
This was *great*! I don't think anyone has actually constructed the mascot before. I do know that Boisy and the Coco Crew did find out who wrote the original BASIC / Extended BASIC manuals (and I think the illustrator as well)... I will reach out to them and post here once I get their names.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Oh that would be awesome.
@mzody 4 ай бұрын
Was having a very stressful week and this was just a whole bucket of happiness. Thanks Taylor and Amy!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
That makes us so happy to hear! Just what the Dr (TRS-80) ordered.
@timothyp8947 4 ай бұрын
Totally bonkers, totally love it! Now I won’’t be able to see another retro computer without it getting the Taylor and Amy anthropomorphic touch!
@ahc2369 4 ай бұрын
Flashback to OM days. This is why you placed 8th in World Competition. You still got it!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
TOTAL FLASHBACK
@EricLikness 4 ай бұрын
I'm sooo happy to see you follow the sage advice of Norm Abram during his days on the New Yankee Workshop. There's no more important piece of equipment that _THESE_ Safety Glasses. 👍Nobody wants PVC fragments anywhere near their eyelids, eyeballs,... And 6:28 Steak Knife ftw, hey it's safer than any laser cutter quite frankly and WAY quicker for this build. 👍 Aaaaand BOO-YAH! 11:03 dear reader, if you're watching this, Taylor and Amy did it! This turned out way better than I thought it would.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
And way way WAY better than we thought it would.
@TheJonBrawn 4 ай бұрын
Absolutely FANTASTIC! While there are retro KZfaqrs out there wasting their time attaching 16TB SCSI drives to a ZX80 or hooking up a punch card reader to their early-access release PlayStation 6, THIS is where the really interesting stuff is happening.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
This is the HARD SCIENCE ppl!
@bornach 4 ай бұрын
That's the book that taught me how to program in the Summer of 1981
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Nice!
@Freejack1971 2 ай бұрын
It was Winter of 1984 for me. 😄
@draygosmith 4 ай бұрын
Maccy + Coco playdate = Best vid in history. 😄
@CurtisBoyle 4 ай бұрын
They are cousins, too - the original Jef Raskin designed Macintosh prototype used a 6809 CPU... same as the Coco has (2 MHz in the Mac's case).
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
I live for this
@allenhalsted4895 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! The creativity and passion that goes into this channel leaves me at a loss for words. I really appreciate your hard work and dedication. Please keep it coming!
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!
@dirkcrossi6574 4 ай бұрын
This is the most Crazy Show i ever seen ... ;)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We are like, now for something completely different....
@zh84 4 ай бұрын
"See, here he is with his new friend." "Disky." I don't know why, but that made me smile. My first computer was a ZX Spectrum 16K. I still have the manual: spiral bound with what I thought then and think now is beautiful artwork on the cover. Edit: smiled all the way through. You two are loonies. Highly intelligent, skilful, original and creative loonies. And I mean that as a compliment. 🙂
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Taken as a compliment! 😂
@Freejack1971 2 ай бұрын
Holy crap. Your reveal of the Color Computer 2 manual just sent me back to Christmas, 1983! I was trying to make video games in BASIC with poor results. I didn't know anyone in my blue-collar hometown who knew about computers lol. All I had was that damn book!
@fractalMD 2 ай бұрын
Time travel!!!
@MacintoshLibrarian 4 ай бұрын
awww this is sooo cute!!! i love this! yes! Maccy needs to hang out with him :)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Yes yes yes!!!
@DJTI99 4 ай бұрын
As someone who has been know to wear the occasional bow-tie, I approve.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Excellent!
@datassetteuser356 4 ай бұрын
Now that's the kind of classic computing content I did not expect, but do appreciate a lot! :D Great work!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
The retro content you didn't even know was possible....😂
@TobyDeshane 4 ай бұрын
I used to draw him ALL THE TIME in school. This is fantastic. 🥰🍻
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
He is pretty cute!
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
Yay new T&A show!!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Woo hoo!
@yurasergienko6890 4 ай бұрын
nice song! add to playlist
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Woo!
@escgoogle3865 4 ай бұрын
My phone died today and the thing I was most bummed about was losing the last text chain I had with my best female buddy from Uni (class of 93). The very last text I sent her was a link to the 6502 song with some comments. Keep SINGING those Weird Al inspired songs, they keep us smiling and I hope it made her smile in those last days.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Always and forever ❤
@DaveCurran 4 ай бұрын
Great to see the Mini PET manual made the grade along side it's illustrious predecessors. I will start work immediately on a Mini PET mascot for the next edition 🙂
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
You'd better get on it!!!!! 😂
@ColinGagnon 4 ай бұрын
That stack of manuals is so relatable. I knew the differences between so many different versions of BASIC that I never touched.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Got to have the manual stack!
@WhatHoSnorkers 4 ай бұрын
That was unexpected. Awesome and adorable! And who DOESN'T love a good montage.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We don't even know what we are going to do.
@WhatHoSnorkers 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMDIt's the most fun way!
@BigBadBench 4 ай бұрын
Jeez. I thought I did high quality janky stuff in my channel, but y’all win; I love this so much!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's an honor.
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
1:32 it’s like they knew the robots were gonna take over
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Prescient
@DerekLippold 4 ай бұрын
I remember when I was a kid had a couple children’s books that had a small story, some stickers, and a BASIC program to type in.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Those are really fun
@RetroWithMarco 4 ай бұрын
Thank you for your video, and for the Douglas Adams sign.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We've got you!
@HD63C09EP 4 ай бұрын
But there's 1 manual.. and only 1 manual.. hahaha I really enjoyed this video. Doctor Tandy Radio Shack 80!! (It's a normal name) hahaha So much fun.. keep up the great work, and love the coco videos.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Coco forever!
@HD63C09EP 4 ай бұрын
It would be fun to see an 8 bit Star Trek software adventure.. in costume? How many systems had a Star Trek Game? Which is the most fun?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We do love costumes.
@DaveHoltzman 4 ай бұрын
Wow! first time viewer and new subscriber. I had a really good time with this one.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Welcome! Yes, we are always this weird.
@ashe420 4 ай бұрын
Loved the song and the new little dude!!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! We love him.
@anybitfeverdreams 4 ай бұрын
Ok, I regret that I can only like it twice.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Double true!
@jozhua5000 4 ай бұрын
I don’t know y’all but y’all sure do radiate wholesome vibes! Nice song
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Wholesome AF!
@DavidYoud 4 ай бұрын
Wait, how did I miss this episode (12 days ago)? Nice work! ("Be careful, his bowtie is really a camera")
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Stinkin algorithm! Thanks, David!
@matt.604 4 ай бұрын
"Disky" reminds me of the command to format the disk. To this day every time I format a drive in windows I say DSKINI0 in my head.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
And rightly so
@shawnerz98 4 ай бұрын
Love it! @0:23 "...way better than the impractical guide!" 🤣🤣 @12:09 "Clippy's Dad!" 📎 🤣
@poofygoof 4 ай бұрын
"he's my son" "he's clippy's dad" so that makes clippy your grandson?
@atarigalore 4 ай бұрын
you 2 NEED to make a old tech parody music album... take my money
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We seem to be working up to that, albeit inadvertently!
@larryk731 4 ай бұрын
I can't decide if you 2 are geniuses or just crazy. Keep it up either way.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
No reason we can't be both!
@KeritechElectronics 4 ай бұрын
All eighties and no trash, haha! Cute project.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It was fun!
@emrahoral 3 ай бұрын
More 80s and 90s stories and photos please 😊
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
@T.E.S.S. 3 ай бұрын
every video is a delight
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Awe, thx!
@aytviewer2421 4 ай бұрын
I think he must be Maccy's crazy uncle from London.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Hahaha
@ApolloVIIIYouAreGoForTLI 4 ай бұрын
The Nerd Queens from Bama are back!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Woo hoo!
@HansCampbell 4 ай бұрын
I have to admit that is really cool. Great job. 😃
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
No one is more surprised than we are!
@bazodee2 4 ай бұрын
Cool build. Next project: Computer Space arcade cabinet made of play-doh.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Hahahaha. Be careful what you say around us.
@davidkroeker1821 4 ай бұрын
I hope we’ll get a chance to meet Anthropomorphic CoCo at CoCoFest! My 11yr old son is coming with me this year and just watched this video. Maccy is one of his favourite KZfaq characters, so he’s liking this new one already.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Fingers crossed! And Mac Librarian has agreed to a paydate!
@marjon1703 4 ай бұрын
Brilliant! I wonder what Avon makeup palette would be suitable for Coco.....
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
There is a thought!
@frnno967 4 ай бұрын
I hope you'll bring this to VCF Southwest! We're having a Tandy Assembly meetup at the show this year and this would fit right in!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Well have to see how portable he is, but it's got travel potential.
@transistorbaluba 3 ай бұрын
i like these girls... they also have a passion for computers
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
😃
@lazarian4428 4 ай бұрын
That's neat. Glad you guys had fun recreating the mascot from the CoCo books. Those books were my introductions to computers when I was a kid. The CoCo community had another mascot that even had a guy in a silly cat costume that they had at conventions. CoCo Cat was often seen in the Rainbow magazines. Cheers! :)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Oh, I must find coco cat.
@lazarian4428 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD www.cocopedia.com/wiki/images/5/5e/Rainbow_cover_1987-07.jpg
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
@@lazarian4428Yikes!
@MonkeyUnit 4 ай бұрын
Can Simone Giertz and Laura Kampf create and perform musical numbers with catchy retro PC lyrics as well as you two? No! They can't! Well, probably not. Another great video!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
They are so totally awesome, tho. Must say!
@MichaelZweifel 4 ай бұрын
I can't get that song out my head
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
You are welcome or I am sorry.
@SusieTheExhaustedCatLady 3 ай бұрын
How dare the KZfaq gods not alert me to your videos!!!???!!! I kept thinking, where are they?? Finally, I can catch up! :)
@SusieTheExhaustedCatLady 3 ай бұрын
AND A SONG??? Damn. I've missed y'all.
@fractalMD 3 ай бұрын
Love youuuuuuuuu
@geremychubbuck3730 4 ай бұрын
One of your best videos, guys. Two thumbs up. 👍 👍
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Lol, thx!!
@timwilcox5158 4 ай бұрын
Awesome tee shirt Taylor. Greetings from the UK.
@VK2FVAX 4 ай бұрын
You guys are nuts. :) Keep being you guys.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Can not mount a counterargument.
@VK2FVAX 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD None needed. Too much awesome.
@EricsEdgeVideos 4 ай бұрын
Next to cutting an actual steak, I find this is an acceptable use.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Exactly!
@sn1000k 4 ай бұрын
Its (still) so weird how she looks at the screen or whatever and not the lens constantly. Bends my brain.
@sn1000k 4 ай бұрын
Loved the tune by the way
@sn1000k 4 ай бұрын
I just realized what it is. Who's the third and silent cast member to the left? She keeps giving them knowing glances. THAT'S why shes looking over there ok ok
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Is she me? Am I she? 😂
@Chris.Wiley. 4 ай бұрын
Very cool! Also, I'm looking forward to the foam play button!! 🤣
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It might be somewhere in this very video.....
@Chris.Wiley. 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMDDoh! I'll watch again.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
@@Chris.Wiley. Easter egg!
@BenevolentChum 4 ай бұрын
He's sooo awesome!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Right?!?!?!?!?
@MichaelZweifel 4 ай бұрын
One of your greatest video's I love it!!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Glad you like it, cause it's kinda out there!
@BrandonNedwek 4 ай бұрын
Congrats on the play button, well deserved (still hoping for a 2^12 mukbang)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
There will be mukbank...... eventually. We have not forgotten!
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
0:48 no joke. I was given a MC-10 as a kid. I wish I still had it.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Nice
@wearwolf2500 4 ай бұрын
Absolutely perfect
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
😃
@MeriaDuck 4 ай бұрын
There's always hoping the original artist shows up in the comments :-)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
How cool would that be!
@NickMarotta 4 ай бұрын
That's awesome
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Thx!!
@lsdowdle 4 ай бұрын
Last time I was in Memphis, someone used one of those cutters thingies to cut out the catalitic converter from the bottom of my vehicle. That cost a pretty penny to get fixed. The muffler place who fixed it for me said they do multiples of those every day. Your next project should be downloading your brain into a computer and taking it over. I'm guessing ya'll have some "maker space" type places available around town and don't necessarily have to use your steak knife.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Let's face it, we would go to a maker space space and still use a steak knife.
@RetroTechorDie 4 ай бұрын
This both scares and intrigues me.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
As it should!
@larryk731 4 ай бұрын
You are not alone
@ActionRetro 4 ай бұрын
3:04 new nightmare unlocked
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
We aren't even CLOSE to even on nightmares!
@ActionRetro 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMDahahaha 👹
@chrissimpson1183 4 ай бұрын
It looks great!!!!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Thx!!!!
@lsdowdle 4 ай бұрын
Clippie's mom wants child support.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Ha!
@truckingwithlofigirl 4 ай бұрын
Sweet! Just need to create Flippy The Disk Drive next! 😃👍
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's so creepy looking!
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
4:21 I wish I had a room like that
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's a feast for the eyes.
@Atar1G1rl 4 ай бұрын
I love him!!!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
He really is pretty cute.
@8bitsinthebasement 4 ай бұрын
Nice job ;)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Thx!! :)
@jamesward6301 4 ай бұрын
Love you ladies! From a Brit exiled in Nepal
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Well hi!
@misjavanlaatum 4 ай бұрын
Awesome. Why does he have two tiny cupholders at belly height? 🤔🤣 Also this mascot needs its own video game. They all did, so why not?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's to keep his body from sliding forward. I prolly need something like it for myself, tbh. 😂
@bonemar66 4 ай бұрын
Take a drink every time the word anthropomorphize is said in this video. No one gets drunk, but it's odd that it's said twice, right?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Wait till we say sesquipedalian three times and our English teacher appears. 😂
@drjohnfisher 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMDI feel like aesculapian might be a touch more a propos?
@DavidStahlOLDHAPPyMACs 4 ай бұрын
Thant is so cool nice job ladys
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Thx!!!!
@Cocomanvideo 4 ай бұрын
Neat!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
😃
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
6:50 hey…I use streak knives for a lot of things. Like opening packages.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Everything but cutting steak.
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD right?
@mike_pena 4 ай бұрын
Wood floor repair video next please!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
But for real
@michaelstoliker971 4 ай бұрын
Lets call him Trashy.
@star2gmail 4 ай бұрын
He DOES exist! :)
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Hahaha. I heard it in the voice of the red M&M.
@brianwieseler5938 4 ай бұрын
Very cool. Is that the CoCo3 I donated you? If so would that make us related? LOL.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's not, but that was 10000% the inspiration!!!!!
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
11:42 omg. This is going to end up at a show isn’t it?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
👀
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
@@fractalMD lol
@thebreakkey 4 ай бұрын
Bringin' him to CoCoFEST?
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
👀
@David_Ladd 4 ай бұрын
Ooooooooo!!!!
@David_Ladd 4 ай бұрын
I hope you two are bringing your creation to CoCoFEST :D
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's David Ladd!
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
It's possible!
@thomasrotweiler 4 ай бұрын
I would be reassured if you could add "No floors were ruined by careless use of steak knives or paint brushes in this video." Absolute genius video.
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Nothing was ruined beyond prior amount of ruinage. 😂
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
8:12 hmm we gotta get you to silver at least
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
That would be bannanas.
@lsdowdle 4 ай бұрын
You don't have a Timex Sinclair ZX81? There is a MiSTer FPGA core for that. :P~~~~
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
Looooool. So noted.
@ipavemyownroad 2 ай бұрын
NABUUUUUU
@fractalMD 2 ай бұрын
NABUUUUUUUUUUUU
@AddieDirectsTV 4 ай бұрын
10:03 yeah I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler
@fractalMD 4 ай бұрын
I'm glad it's supposed to be cartoony.
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