Greetings, and have I got something exciting to show today!
At least it's super exciting to me, this is
a Tandy Keyboard!
And not just that but I got a mouse to go along with it because I cannot
hold myself back so as soon as I saw these in a local RadioShack and yes, they still exist
They came back from bankruptcy. uhh Yeah
I saw these on the shelves, could not say no, that Tandy logo man
Not just nostalgic, but I just think it's cool
I mean, it's just a cool looking logo and the fact that they brought it back at all is a fantastic thing to me
So in case you're not aware
Tandy was Radioshack's In-house brand for decades
I mean in the late seventies and the eighties it has the Tandy RadioShack AD line of computers the
TrS-80 and then of course probably more famously for a lot of people, with the Tandy 1000 series
of computers
And they were personal computers, IBM PC compatible for the most part
Especially the later ones and I talked about these several times in the past year at LGR
But I love this brand just for nostalgic reasons
they just made some really cool computers and dang it they have a cool under state of
Dandy Tandy logo, as far as I know this brand hasn't really been around since, I don't know, the nineties, 19...
...94 or something its been a long time, but I guess part of the restructuring after their return from bankruptcy
They brought it back for some computer products in stores once again here in
2017. So the Mouse, while this cost
$15 so at the wireless mouse we're going to check it out
See what it is like to this cause it just USB mouse
I mean that there's nothing really special about it except that Tandy brand and I like the red they had available in other colors
But I couldn't say no to red, and then of course there's the Tandy wireless keyboard here which again pretty standard stuff
Just a regular PC whatever compatible
means USB
But it has Tandy on there, it also has this nice brown accent
along the box like that
I can't help but think that is maybe some sort of other throwback to just like old-school stuff
Speaking of old-school, Tandy is not the only brand that Radioshack brought back from the dead. They have recently resurrected
their Realistic brand for other in-house audio products, now it's for bluetooth devices
So there's little pill
speakers and some headsets and whatnot, I wasn't interested in those [...], I don't know. I'm not a really big fan of Realistic anyway.
But Tandy, uhh could not say no to that. Let's open this thing up and see what you get
I'm curious about the quality of this, especially since it was so cheap
So I've got a little, uhh, thingy right here
Oh I guess that's the dongle. I will need that, plugging in and are useless
Instruction manual, but even that. I'm kind of curious what that says, and here we go
But there's a Tandy keyboard right here, definitely keeping that box, that is super cool, right?
I mean, this is just a, this is just a keyboard, chiclet keyboard. You know honestly.
It doesn't feel as cheap as I thought it would, feels alright, but at the same time I'm not a really big fan of this style of keyboard
So whatever, but it's that Tandy logo, I mean, look at that that right there that is sexy to me
White-on-black all that looks good, just a keyboard
Alright cool
Well, that's a thing try it out here in a moment, and let's try out also try out open up the Tandy wireless optical mouse
Yep, that's pretty typical, something here and a little manual thingy
One of the manual, it says plug it in
yeah, it just
Just plug it in, whatever, ok here's the mouse and well right away that feels kind of terrible
wait a minute, seems like it should work as a mouse
too small though, also just really cheap. I mean like ridiculously cheap feeling like
Oh, God, it's already coming apart
Yeah, well don't do that
It's a cheap mouse, that's ok that looks like it has a little bit of
Sensitivity adjustment here in the bottom has high, low, and off, that's cool. Its optical and of course being wireless it is battery-Powered
double A, uhh no triple A, make sense
alright, well the plug both of these into one of my computers and see what you get
little dongle right there, too
alright, so I got these two loaded up with batteries and turn on the
mouse here as I just blinded myself with the optical and I don't have to turn this on
Maybe it's already on, whatever, so let's plug in these dongles
You all know I said earlier, but RadioShack is totally not
Like sponsoring me for those or anything. I just went in there, and I thought it was freakin cool
There's one of them.
And both of them.
The best keyboard and Ducky secret mouse out of the way. And I got the keyboard here, which
alright that is working and so is the mouse, sweet
that's really sensitive
Holy crap that's even more sensitive. Well, it's sensitive either way, but the lower sensitivity
I can work with that. I can obviously mess around with it and get it
you know, fine in Windows, but I don't want to do that. I want to run DOS.
So we've got a DOSbox open here because it feels appropriate for Tandy
Let's open Edit here and see what it is like to type on. What is... ohh my word. That is mushy
like
That is not a satisfying keyboard my word
it's very quiet, but
It's like pressing down on plastic bags
I'm not very fond of this I could get used to it, but
yeah
Put a gummy thing while that is about what I expected. It's just a typical cheap
20$ wireless keyboard, you'd expect to find this for like eight bux if it's weren't wireless
As for the mouse though, I mean well, it feels cheaper than this does the keyboard, but uhh, it actually
not very satisfying click, too small obviously for my hand
I much prefer my ducky secret or anything slightly larger like that, but
I mean even the side buttons feel okay, mouse wheel feels good
middle click is a little heavy. Whatever man. Ok let's get out of here, and let's try
A little bit of DOOM 2 because that's something we always gotta do in here
Yeah
Tandy
2017 Hardware playing DOOM 2. Ultra violence.
Alright give me that chainsaw man.
Man other than that mushy keyboard. I mean, this is totally acceptable
thing for playing DOOM 2.
Really? What isn't I mean?
As long as you can play DOOM 2, you should, regardless of your hardware
As they say the best thing for playing DOOM 2 is the thing you have, whether it be
a nice mechanical keyboard
Ohh I missed it already, I feel so good
Or a piece of crap
But you know even the PC crap lets you play DOOM 2 which is better than not having any crap at all
I got to say that is patently terrible though that feeling is like the whole
You know I'm just surprised that it doesn't feel
Like I had the Razer Deathstalker that I covered a while back with your very similar kind of crappy thing
And you know that better key feel, that was alright with the response and whatnot this just feel so bad
But like build quality wise it's not the worst, umm oops I open the calculator
I guess the calculator button works, so let me just keep that going
How many calculator instances can I open with this. That is the set of Tandy things sold by RadioShack these days which is
You know, honestly I don't recommended either one of them
But if you'd like the logo like I do and you are stupid then uhh perhaps
you would like to grab them, and for like 35 bucks, I thought it was a fun little time waster
If anything just add on the packages the Tandy logos on it makes me happy
I guess the calculator doesn't open infinitely does it just keeps opening until
you know, and it's like no, no more of those
I can't get over how bad that feels, oh my word. Anyway, thank you very much for watching