On today’s video we are going to check out my Tandy 1400 FD laptop by Radio Shack. The Tandy 1400 FD was a Tandy 1400 Series computer, replacing the earlier 1400 LT model. The 1400 FD however had a very similar specification, with it's V-20 CPU, two 720K floppy drives, and 768KB RAM. The system ran Tandy MS-DOS 3.30 and Deskmate.

This awesome Tandy 1400 FD vintage laptop computer was owned by a Boeing Aerospace Engineer. How cool is that? So cool!

Fun facts: The Tandy 1400 HD model is identical to the Tandy 1400 FD except that it was fitted with a 20 MB hard disk in lieu of one of the floppy drives. The machine was made mostly by Sanyo, with a Toshiba display panel.

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0:00 - Intro: Tandy 1400 FD Laptop by Radio Shack
1:07 - Tandy AC Adapter Catalog Number 25-3501
1:25 - Original Tandy 1400 laptop computer manuals and books
1:26 - Spiral bound Tandy 1400 FD HD A Practical Guide
1:37 - Tandy 1400 FD HD MS-DOS GW-BASIC Quick Reference Guide
1:45 - Backup Tandy 3.30 DOS System Boot Floppy Disk
1:54 - First power on and smoke test. Will it work?
2:32 - Pro tip: Making sure everything is plugged in LOL
2:45 - Going over the Tandy 1400 portable computer specifications
3:11 - This computer was used by a former Boeing Aerospace Engineer
3:29 - NEC V-20 8088 equivalent with a CPU Speed of 4.77 MHz and 8 MHz Switchable
3:58 - Tandy 1400 FD laptop smoke test 2: Electric Boogaloo
4:10 - ROM BIOS Version 1.04 Base Memory Size 640K with 128K Expansion Memory
4:32 - Boot Error. Drive not ready! Using MS-DOS 3.30 boot floppy disk
5:03 - Booting up with Microsoft MS-DOS version 3.30 licensed to Tandy Corporation
5:20 - Testing both 720 KB Floppy Drives A and B with backup Tandy boot disk
6:14 - Tandy 1400 FD backlit screen made by Toshiba looks great
6:35 - The side controls: Contrast, power switch, volume knob and internal external floppy switch
7:24 - Back ports: DC 12V (center positive), External Drive, RGB video, RS-232C, printer and keyboard
9:05 - What have we learned about the Tandy 1400 FD so far?
10:00 - Discussing the Tandy 1400 HD hard drive model and how to add a hard drive to this laptop
10:21 - After some research we have a internal IDE expansion port
10:42 - Texelec makes a XT-IDE CF adapter for the Tandy 1400 laptop computers
11:00 - A closer look at the Tandy 1400 FD PC internal IDE port
11:55 - CompactFlash Adapter for Tandy 1400 laptops by Lo-Tech and made by Texelec
12:31 - Up close with the Tandy XT-IDE hard drive adapter with a SanDisk Ultra II 1.0 GB CF card
12:50 - Installing the XT-IDE CF adapter for the Tandy 1400 portable computer
13:25 - First boot with MS-DOS 6.22 loaded up on the 1.0 GB SanDisk Compact Flash card
13:54 - XTIDE Universal BIOS boot screen for the win!
14:06 - Successful boot to C prompt under Microsoft MS-DOS 6.22 from the CF card hard drive
14:35 - Outro

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Lo-tech XT-CF Adapter for Tandy 1400 Laptops:
https://texelec.com/product/lo-tech-x...

The Boeing Company:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing

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