To those wondering if the RF signal _always_ looks that bad, check out the same Dragon BASIC running on a TRS-80 Color Computer through the same setup. Not great by any means, but a lot better than what's seen in the unboxing! The machine just needs a little repair work :) i.imgur.com/zRxqLsf.png

"Like an MRE bag... Nice..." In Steve We Trust. Great unboxing! Sucks that the color didn't work.

other retro tech enthusiasts: "wow this looks so cool!" LGR: *instinctively sniffs*

On the uk dragon's the channel select switch at the back is the power on/off switch and the power brick does not have a switch on it. Those sticking keys are caused by a misaligned top half of the case. It's a common problem. The keys are actually touching the case at the sides. Take the top of the case off and realign it

There’s an entire online community for the Dragon computer. There are people who actually develop and sell new games for the system!

The first time I ever got paid to write a program, a friend of my father owned a small shop that made custom picture frames, and he wanted a point-of-sale system that would print out receipts and save transactions. He'd bought a Tandy Color Computer from the local Radio Shack, but had no clue what to do with it. So in the summer of '82 (I was 12 years old) I wrote him some software and taught him how to use it. Also taught him BASIC so he could maintain it himself, and make changes as needed. Got paid $50 -- I thought I was *rich!* LOL! $50 for a 12-year-old in 1982 was a ton of money, honestly. That was when I first realized I could turn my fascination with computers into a career. :-)

Well, here’s something interesting. The old address of Tano is now a movie soundstage for a small studio in New Orleans.

"First time it's been touched in like 36 years" one minute later pounding on case. ^_^

At 16:10, my thought was "He's going to make it print FARTS on the screen a bunch of times". I was not disappointed.

LGR, Techmoan, 8BitGuy, and Technology Connections all with new stuff today. Awesome.

"COURIER PILOT was written in DRAGON BASIC by 14 year-old Tyson Sawyer of Jaffery, New Hampshire." Wonder whatever happened to him, and if he's still upset they misspelled Jaffrey.

The Dragon 32 was the first computer I ever used. One of my teachers at school had one and brought it in to school. Of course, all the cool kids got to use it (or try to use it) first. No one could even get it to load any software so I was left alone with it for an afternoon. It was one of the most memorable days of my life. Happy memories

"Like an MRE bag... Nice" ----- Now lets get this out on to a tray

Blurbs is UNDERRATED! Always bringing random goodness to my life.

“It’s like an mre bag.... nice” Somebody’s been watching steve1989 😂😂

7:45 - MD: Proudly gathers family to watch video, "I packed this!!!!" LGR: Turns on computer MD: Weeps silently.

If you'd told me in 1980-something that in 2020 I'd be watching a video on my PC of someone taking near pornographic pleasure in unboxing a Dragon computer I wouldn't have believed you. In fact I barely believe I'm not imagining posting this comment.

"So weird turning off the power supply" says the man who never spend any time on an Amiga

Being a Welsh computer I'm curious if they make the L key spring extra robust. How else could you type real welsh words such as Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch?

Gosh, I love that TV. Amazing aesthetic! The knobs and switch sound so satisfying to turn and push.

7:31 let's get this out onto a tray!

Clint is the master unboxer, makes you feel like your there with him, love it

Awesome to see something from here in Wales! Had never heard of it before, thanks for covering it.

I freaking LOVE new-old stock videos. Thanks for sharing it!

Fun fact: If you plug that power supply into a Sega Genesis's controller port, you'll get extra blast processing power.

I had one of these for my tenth birthday in 1984 (had to share it with my brother). I already had a commodore 64 We had endless novelty fun typing gibberish

Dragon 64 packed by Mo 30-something years ago. "Hey Mo!"

Just want to say this was a great food video, Clint. Great job!

Wow, a real blast from the past. One of my favourites. Along with several other makes, sold lots of the Dragon32's when I worked in a little Apple dealership in the UK before starting Uni in '84. Great times.

dude orders a 36 years old compute thay say 26 years in a warehouser, keeps it around for 10 years, suffers moves and stuff, box is still good. i order a genesis mini and a pc engine mini from amazon, box comes like someone was playing soccer with it from their warehouse until it reached new york.... WHAT THE HELL ?

Oh yes, I remember in the Spring of 1982 when my boarding school here at Englandshire was donated two brand new Dragon 32s including new Ferguson portable colour TVs & cassette players with grand plans of introducing computer lessons into the curriculum. Straightaway they both took pride in the corner of the classroom to be admired by us starstruck pupils,, but the reality was that no one - not even the teacher - really knew how to use them and they never came with any software, so they sat left untouched most of the time (apart from the one time when someone did type up a simple Pacman game from a magazine). It was only a few months before they were moved to a small side room no bigger than a broom cupboard to be left forgotten and gathering dust. The Dragon 32 never really got anywhere as much love as the Spectrum 48 and Commodore 64, and to be honest wasn't that of a surprise looking back.

Can't wait for the full review, there's some fun games and decent conversions on the Dragon.

oh man! that graphics grid...I TOTALLY remember drawing jets firing lasers and tanks and other SH...tuff on those back in 6th grade so I could program them in BASIC. WOW! Why I love this channel...it's like digging up old memories I didn't even remember I had...lol...great stuff

I hope you decide to film any repair work or cleaning you do to this thing. I would love to see the inside of it! Love seeing new old stock things like this.

Possible reason for the power switch: the UK has switches on every socket. Computer like the Acorn Atom and Sinclair Spectrum don't have any kind of power switch because you'd just turn it off at the wall. I imagine the same is true for the dragon, so for the USA they just slapped a button on the external brick.

Whoh nostalgia!!! I'm in the UK. My father owned a Dragon 32 & 64 that he used for RF packet radio. They were my first experience with "PC's" when I was around 6 or 7 years old. I'm an IT engineer now. So many fun memories with these systems. I can't believe how pristine this one is!! You would get a good price for this from a collector!

SteveMRE : *eating old rations* Clint LGR : *sniffing retro cables*

I'm looking forward to seeing the repair video. Keep up the good work.

Bora da! Very exciting to see this here. My grandfather brought one home once after going to their factory in Kenfig Hill, near Bridgend. I had a space invaders cartridge for it and used an old tiny black and white Sharp TV to play it!

Memories right there. Dragon 32 was my first love in 1984. Now I have many lovelies

I had a Dragon 32 and the same joysticks as the one you were using. I later got a Quickshot 1. What a trip down memory lane 🙂

You really need to upgrade FARTS.BAS with a full line print command: 10 PRINT "**FARTS**"; 20 GOTO 10 The semicolon suppresses the newline.

"Let's get this out on a tray" Nice

I love videos like this one. I hope to see more of this little computer on your main channel soon.

Awesome ! I always wanted a dragon at the time, but couldn't afford one ! I now live in Wales and it feels even more like i should get one for my collection

‘The Welshness of it’ haha! If you ever get chance to visit Wales it’s a beautiful country. Especially the hills of Snowdonia and the castles like Caernarfon and Conwy. Great video - so nice to see old computers like this in such good condition!

Haha I love how you feel about that switcher box thing. I was like 4 or 5 the first time I saw one of those, and the first thought that popped into my head even at that age was "I'm not using this"

As a welsh man I've been waiting for you to get your hands on one of these.

That box is in good nick for 40 years. I cycled 12 miles home from the shop in the rain with my Dragon bungee strapped to that carrier on the back. With no mud guard the box got soaked.

I hope you'll get the picture fixed, those keys to not get stuck and that new display cable hooked. Waiting for a second video from the Tano Dragon at some point. Thanks Clint once again. 👍😃

Great unboxing! Maybe a revisit for you, notice the black knurled knob on the 1-12? selector of the Panasonic monitor/television. If you slide that inward, you can fine tune channel 3. That might improve the signal. Things from my childhood. Keep up the awesome work! I am a huge LGR fan. (It's like a safety cap on prescription medicine. It prevents you from spinning it accidentally. So if you push it inward and spin at the same time, it makes contact with a gear within the tuning mechanism.)

I love those new/old stock unboxing stuff. It's like opening after aeons a Pharaoh's tomb :)

Love new old stock stuff. Got an 81 5150 a while back new-in-box, unconfigured.

Love the Steve from MRE info quote Nice!!!

looking at it still in its protective plastic gave me chills (all of the visual noise on the tv is rly beautiful imo. through the camera at least, seems like an utter pain trying to use it like that lol)

Luv this :) Very refreshing discovery... and FRESH!

Now let's get this Dragon out on a tray, nice.

Why is this so exciting to watch!?

Man, I'm still kicking myself for never picking one of these up when the California Digital still had a large stock of these. First became aware of it after Vwestlife made a video on his, and now I wallow in regret for putting that off. Really fascinating machines, and I love their aesthetic especially.

I had one of those in the mid 80's - it was a good 'tinkerers' machine - the tape cable can be controlled in software and the joystick port was easy to hack and build some custom programmable buttons for.

"I don't want to ruin the box, kinda tight fit here." Nice double entendre!!

It's actually a good video when we get to see what to expect from a 30 yr old computer emerging from hibernation. Look forward to the video of it being fixed >D

I had a Dragon32 back in the early 1980's. The UK version didn't come with a cassette tape, just the cable to connect to one, it don't remember it having an external power supply and it didn't have the box for connecting to the tv, it was plugged straight into the tv with the supplied cable. Great machine with limited graphics, like all computers at that time. The Dragon32 monthly magazine was a great edition to the user experience

Drinking a IPA beer and watching you review a good retro video game console.

MRE bag.. NICE! Steve and LGR forever.

I believe that dragon also had an "unofficial" MSX machine in the late 80s. Would be nice to have more MSX stuff on KZfaq.

19:10 "Dang it the button doesn't work!" I just 2 days ago visited retro computer exhibition in Yandex Museum in Moscow, and played same looking game! And button on their joatik didn't work too!

Never heard of Dragon nor Tano here in the west of Europe. So quite a relic. I've been to some PC/Games expo's back in the late 90's early 00's. And have seen some odd stuff, but never this. Love the fact they have the Welsh dragon in the logo as well.

I remember seeing a Dragon32 in the UK, in the Boots store, back in the 80s. The overwhelming green screen is my ensuring memory...

Wow! my first computer, popular here in the UK, I used to get Dragon user magazine and my mate and me would take turns to input the basic programs listed. Microdeal was a popular Dragon games software house at the time, with clones of donkey kong, Cuthbert in the jungle (Pitfall) etc. lots of fond childhood memories. Chuckie egg was great on it :)

My first computer was the Dragon 32 and I still have it, remember my family unboxing it back in 1983 so this was an interesting video for me as those early experiences slowly entering 'type ins' from magazines and writing silly Basic programs lead to a career in software including a degree in computer science & AI and a while working as a video game developer followed by 20 years of professional software development. I don't have the power supply anymore though and don't fancy wiring one up, they don't come up often on Ebay :( I recall being a bit jealous of Spectrum/C64 owners though however in retrospect the Dragon/Tandy does have a respectable Motorolla CPU 6809 but wasn't very capable at graphics especially in the UK where our TVs couldn't do the artifact tricks to create more colours.

Amazing box, so hip it hurts, with the synthwave coloration

Great vid and the joystick fit in perfectly. :P Cheers.

That Panasonic TV is absolutely gorgeous.

as always great video!

Woah! Another Dragon computer! I just saw one of these on Noel's Retro Lab.

I'm almost positive we had that same little Panasonic Tv back in the day. Watched tons of old I Love Lucy reruns, Star Trek, and even brought it up to a campground and hooked up an NES to it.

I live in the town in Wales where this machine was manufactured. In fact my mother lives about half a mile away from where the Dragon factory once stood :D

That was my Family's first ever computer, we had the 32 to start and upgraded to the 64 later. Such great memories :D

I loved Downland! One of my CoCo favorites. I must defend the 'awful' CoCo joysticks. Although lightly built, they were legitimately quite precise once you got used to them, particularly the non self-centering aspect. It took time, but I grew to love them.

Oh wow. I am so jealous of you right now. I would love a Dragon.

36 year old/new. oh so amazing. soooo jealous of you getting to open that! :)

The games actually look better in black and white. The Dragon's color palette was a bit of an acquired taste.

I like how the left/right arrows are on one side of the keyboard and the up/down arrows on the other. I always thought the ijkm and 4 arrows together always had your fingers in the way.

Please tell me you were referencing Steve1989 from MRE reviews when you said “nice..” after commenting about the bag being of high quality almost as if it were an MRE bag.. cause that would be legendary. Love the content man. You are appreciated.

Nice, a Dragon 32 was our first home computer. A lot sturdier than our later Spectrum 48k+.

Only someone like Clint would get fascinated by the bag used in packaging.

IIRC, in the UK these were sold as the Dragon 32 and Dragon 64 with 32k and 64k RAM respectively. The Dragon 32 case was beige, and the Dragon 64 was light grey.

That's a nice bag, honestly

A non-disclosure agreement with the warranty! That definitely marks that computer to the olden days (where software isn't yet recognised to have copyright protections).

Awesome! I have that same little Panasonic TV.

As soon as you pulled out those cables i was thinking, sniff it! lol

That tv man. Love it.

That Panasonic TV is gorgeous.

I've never had anything this nice in my life. Every time I try to buy anything like this it's either freshly sold out or just out of my price range. I've finally decided to build a Commodore 64 from scratch because the individual components are the only thing I can afford. I figure it will take about a year. Buy the time it's done I imagine that the prices on the ororiginal will be even higher, placing one permanent beyond my reach. I've asked people (relatives and friends) in three states to keep an eye on yard sales for Commodore and Tandy machines in my price range but so far no luck. Back in 2008 when the Tandy Dragon was $40 I was unemployed. Now that I've been to school and am a certified pharmacy technician, the things are $300.

Hey, LGR: Will you be showing the solder reflow on the RF connector or would you eventually get the composite cable that you showed?

Looking forward to the main LGR video on this computer. Never seen one of these.

So many people didn't realize that the RF modulator on Coco, Atari, Commodore, etc. computers and game systems was simply a 75 Ohm antenna connection. During the last couple of years of the 8-bit era I ditched the "TV/GAME" or "TV/COMP" slide switch adapters, and simply used an F-to-RCA adapter.

Yes I think you have got some leaking capacitors in the power supply it seems a bit unsmoothed . Still glad to share the moment . Thanks 👍

I used my C64 with my TV via RF interface for years. Hard to believe looking back now.