Comments on: [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Cody

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 03:06:02 +0000

I'm starting to get a distinct impression over the past couple years of posts, that sweaters were all the rage in the past; and as someone who does not own any sweaters, I'm getting extreme sweater envy.

BG's sweater looks particularly comfy.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Richard

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:24:03 +0000

The top left window on the screen in the ad is File Manager

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: mrnukem

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:48:01 +0000

The Tandy 2000 ended up being the computer that Radio Shack sent to all the retail stores to run the books on. The problem was it ran on a 80186 CPU and was only 70% DOS compatible so they were stuck with 1000′s of these units they could not sell and decided to use them for the retail stores. One thing I do remember was for the time the graphics were really clear and hi-res.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Moondog

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:04:08 +0000

After putting myself into early 1980′s mode, I can see why Bill Gates made a good spokesman for such ads. He was recognizeable for being a little guy that edged himself in among the big guys like IBM.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Fred Garber

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:20:47 +0000

I think that's probably some sort of color picker on the right. Either a paint program, or a "choose the colors of MS Windows?" That's what it looks like to me.

Of course, it could be a colorful bitmap, put there to look "computer like," in order to make the computer more high tech.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Arlandi

Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:07:15 +0000

I dont think Gates got paid for the ad. Maybe he made a deal to install MS Windows inside all Tandy 2000?

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Layne

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:57:44 +0000

Ok, so I recognize Reversi and Calc. I assume that is some sort of Command Prompt (sorry, DOS Window) in the upper left — but I can't really tell. Does anyone know what the one of the right with the colored boxes was? It doesn't look like anything I remember from any version of Windows I've seen….

Layne

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Chris

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:00:26 +0000

A terrabyte of RAM? I don't think so!!!!

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Kitsunexus

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:18:50 +0000

I'm taking a stab here, but I'm pretty sure $6K will get you dual quad-core processors, 2 of those new scalar-enabled NVidia cards, and a terrabyte HD and a terrabyte of RAM.

Comment on [ Retro Scan of the Week ] Bill Gates, Tandy Celebrity Spokesman by: Benj Edwards

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:26:13 +0000

Yeah, I don't even know what you could buy with $6000 that would be useful to the average consumer these days. Whatever it is, it would probably be redundant in some fashion, with most of the money spent on multiple large HDs, displays, graphics cards, or processors.