I was too young to know anything about it other than the brand name on the box, Tandy. It was given to us and if there was ever a time to be scared of loading times.... It was with this thing and it's floppy 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks.
I remember having to know a few dos commands to run things. I believe it had windows software and you had to use the dos to use the basic interface. I'd play a few games with it but apparently it computer wasn't up to snuff performance wise. There was this one game I played a lot called Dangerous Dave and at the time, all the colors looked weird (normal to us at the time) and there were a lot of blues, light reds, pinks, ect. I happened to find the game again recently and not only does it run at it's normal speed (it ran in like slow motion back then), but it's colors were different with normal reds, blues, ect.
lol, I remember we also had two joysticks. One was one you put your hand around like if you were playing a flying game and the other one was a joystick you rested your thumb on to move around and used your other hand to hit a button on the other side of the controller.
We also had a game called Operation Wolf (which was a popular arcade game if I recall, like the Terminator machine gun ones) as well as a kickass card game that had at least 4 different games in it. It was cool, you got to pick your character from a large group of heads and after a 5-10 minute wait, you would play some cards. It was fun to play something like the old lady because if somebody got it, the character would turn into the old lady, lol.
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*edit* Another notable piece of hardware was our amazing(ly slow) line printer. We were also given a basic text program where you could create text and print it out for a sign. Just like the 5-10 minute loading times, trying to print something with the line printer took forever and it was loud as hell. Picture yourself sitting in the middle of a room and somebody is standing infront of you and then lets out a long yell while constantly moving a few feet to the right and left.
