Ok. I have to see this. While I didn’t have the RL, it was a newer slimmed down model of the SL, which was the less expensive verson of what I had, the TL. [this was an 8086, I had a 286 so I still feel bragging rights in an arena that nobody cares about 🙂 ]. So pretty much anything for this will probably have been true for my first PC (not first computer, which was the Tandy Color Computer 2)…. except mine was faster, more expandable… ok… yeah… old elitism dies hard. 😛
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Very satisfying review. I had the Tandy 1000 TL from 1989 – somewhere in the 90s. Can’t actually remember what happened to it but it was my baby for a long time. [probably gave it away or something]. I’ve missed the SOUND program for a long long time ’til Audacity came along.
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Ok. Another alt.universe me for sure. The digital sound ability of these Tandys, one of which I had, was amazing for the day and I made good use of it. But he’s achieving something I could only have dreamed of back in the day: getting it to do stereo.
So.. he’s doing something I might’ve done…. no, I know I would’ve done. Just get another one, time it right, and play them at the same time to get stereo. Pretty amazing for 1990 tech, playing a 2013 Youtube song…. even if it had to be spread across two computers to get the stereo 🙂
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mrhgh. One more back to the future trip. 2017 meets 1988 who meets 2017 through music.
Takes an actual Tandy 1000 with the 8-bit 22050 DAC, converts a 2013-era song, transfers it over with floppes and we hear the result, straight from 1988 tech.
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