My dad was the store manager at the local RadioShack store in my hometown. That meant I grew up in a Tandy household during the 80s. It was a fun time to be a kid interested in tech.
Our first home computer was the TRS-80 Color Computer. A couple years later we got a Tandy 1000, a fine computer that I still think outclassed much of its peers at the time.
The last Tandy computer we owned was a Tandy 2500 SX, a 386 PC running at a blazing 20 MHz with a whopping 3 MB of RAM (it was a banner day when we maxxed it out to 5 MB). It was the PC that I first used to connect to BBSes using its internal modem... I was WAY late to the BBS party.
I do still have my Color Computer 3 that I got for Christmas back in 5th (or 6th?) grade. Still runs like a champ. Occasionally I like to use it for BBSing.
Here's a photo I posted on Reddit of it a few months back:
https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/ifeuky/doing_some_bbs_hop ping_from_my_tandy_color/
You know what they say: "One's TRaSh-80 is another's treasure," or something to that effect.
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