{"id":3073,"date":"2021-12-17T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2021-12-17T14:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T19:24:04","slug":"retro-scan-the-tandy-sensation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/3073\/retro-scan-the-tandy-sensation","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan ]<\/span> The Tandy Sensation!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tandy_sensation_rsmfly_june1993_p15_large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/tandy_sensation_rsmfly_june1993_p15_small.jpg\" alt=\"Radio Shack Tandy Sensation PC WinMate Advertisement Flier Flyer scan - 1993\" class=\"retroscan\" \/><\/a><span class=\"freecaption\"><em>&#8220;Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multimedia_PC\">Multimedia PC<\/a>. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo sound card, a voice\/fax modem, SVGA color graphics, and more.<\/p>\n<p>All this for $2,199 US with a SVGA monitor included (that&#8217;s about $4,232 today). You could also get the MMS-10 Stereo Speaker\/Amplifier for $79.95. It seemed so futuristic at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Sensation also shipped with the interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/toastytech.com\/guis\/winmate.html\">WinMate interface<\/a>, a successor to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/743142\/remembering-radio-shacks-windows-competitor-tandy-deskmate\/\">DeskMate<\/a> that ran on top of Windows 3.1.<\/p>\n<p>I miss the ebullient joy of Radio Shack computer bundles aimed at families. They always seemed so fun. I remember seeing the Sensation in a local Raleigh, NC Radio Shack store circa 1993 and wanting one.<\/p>\n<p>By the way &#8212; Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From a Radio Shack mail flyer, June 1993, p.15 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Topic:<\/strong> Have you ever owned a Tandy IBM compatible PC? Tell us about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Now computing can be fun and easy for the entire family.&#8221; The Tandy Sensation was an early attempt at a specialized Multimedia PC. In this case, Tandy came up with a 25 MHz 486SX computer with a 107 MB hard drive, built-in CD-ROM drive, stereo sound card, a voice\/fax modem, SVGA color graphics, and more. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,27,26,10],"tags":[97,150,551,155,133,1059,190,60,1719,1720,189],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-regular_features","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers","tag-97","tag-advertisement","tag-cd-rom","tag-flyer","tag-ibm-pc","tag-multimedia","tag-radio-shack","tag-retro-scan","tag-sensation","tag-svga","tag-tandy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3116,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}