In 2024, how often does one get to install XENIX on original hardware…with factory installation disks and the original documentation binders? I don’t know, but this is an opportunity I can’t miss!

It’s upgrade time! MS-DOS 6.2, here we come!

Setting up a dual-boot situation on the Tandy MMPC Model 20. Feels like the first time…

I don’t know about you, but I think DeskMate 3 looks pretty good on the TRS-80 Model 12! It’s just a screenshot from the DOS version, but still…

I can’t be the only person who enjoys a good DeskMate tutorial every now and then…

Welcome to my TRS-80 Models 12/16 format party. It’s quite the raucous affair…no tops!

I saw the signs. And they opened up my eyes…I saw the signs. 😁 These old Radio Shack store signs really tie things together.

The Tandy 2800 HD has a full-size 3.5” hard drive in it. Full-size floppy, too! I guess that helps explain this thing’s heft. At least the drive is AT-IDE.

Did a dump of the ROM BIOS on the Tandy 2800 HD laptop this morning. In the first few bytes is the phrase: “No one confuses us with IBM”. 🤣

This Tandy 1500 HD has a dead hard drive, a floppy drive with the (notoriously) rotten belt, and no option ROM socket. But the stars aligned and I was able to hack in the XTIDE Universal BIOS in anyway…and boot over serial.

It’s a Friday night install party on the Tandy 2500 SX/25.

For those of you following along with the Tandy 1500 HD serial boot project, it turns out 115.2k baud works if you tell SerDrive to use named pipe mode (-p). That makes it MUCH more responsive.

Finally got to work on my Tandy disk cartridge system for the TRS-80 Model 16. We have signs of life!

We’ve got diskless OS/2 Warp RPL’d on the Tandy 2500 SX/25 from a Warp Server! Client and server both on Tandy computers, of course.

I can’t think of a better use of a Saturday evening.

Name…that…(Tandy)…Heap! I just got it, and its a bit of a Frankenstein.

I decided to add a little old-school music to my evening in the computer room. I don’t know about you, but I just LOVE these really verbose VFDs. To me, the busier the display, the better.

My Super Mushroom clock clearly doesn’t know how the calendar works. Happy September 54th, everyone!

My two Tandy 4800-series are together for the first time…the 4825 SX on the left and the towering(!) 4833 LX/T Multimedia on the right. Doesn’t get much better than this!

Coming home to the CoCo! What's not to like? An 8-bit computer with a real OS (OS-9 with processes, security, redirection, pipes, and more) was the perfect system to cut my teeth on in the '80s.