Tandy 1400 LT--Found one in my baement

[rbudrick]

Hi Folks,

I found one of these Tandy laptops in my basement and don't know jack about it. Is it good for anything (especially gaming)? Was it ever of any popularity? Anyone ever owned one? Anything else interesting you might tell me about it?

-Rob

[diskoboy]

Damn! That's an ancient laptop!!

I'd say 'no' on the games. Most of the early laptops could only run text based programs - spreadsheets, and word processors, and so on.. But then again - you may be able to get some late 80's/early 90's IBM/Tandy programs to run on it. Judging by it's specs - it looks like it had a decent enough processor, for the time..

http://www.8bit-micro.com/tandylap.htm

[Goblin]

I took one to college in 1993 and it was even a few years old for that time. I used it to write papers with Word Perfect and to dial into the unix server with my 9600 baud modem. There I checked email and since this was really before the web hit the mainstream I used it to fool around with gopher! I really never played any games on it, maybe a text adventure or two.

[rbudrick]

Bummer. What's a gamer to do? Was this thing proprietary, or did it's software work on other machines and vice versa?

-Rob

[Celestial Avenger]

I bet you could play Quest for Glory and Wolfenstein 3D in monochrome or something. I mean, I played at least QfG on my Tandy 1000 at 3 MHz. Speed wasn't BLISTERING though. I bet 10 will make that baby run.

*edit* A site said the laptop has a Color Graphics Adapter. I expected the computer to be monochrome. heh. I'd be curious to see how Quest for Glory runs on it.

[rbudrick]

Whoa...this thing has color? I haven't even tried turning it on...I don't know where the AC adapter is anyway.

Now I think I know what that ancient bag of DOS 3.3 floppies I threw away was for. D'oh!

-Rob

[RockNRollJerk]

Is a Tandy 1400 better than/upto par with a Tandy 1000? I used to play all sorts of great Sierra games on my 1000.

[Flack]

According to the website link, it had CGA graphics and an RCA video output meaning you could hook it into your television. If it really does run DOS 3.x and has CGA then there should be a ton of games that thing will run.