With its low cost, light weight, and lightning-quick access to DOS, the DeskMate GUI, and a word processor with spelling checker in ROM, the Tandy 1100FD was the ultimate notebook computer of 1989 -- or so claimed Radio Shack. But is it worth owning today as a vintage PC? I also discuss its successor, the Tandy 1110HD, and fraternal twin, the Panasonic Business Partner 150 (CF-150B). Download images of the 1100FD's original MS-DOS and DeskMate system disks here: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html Replacement floppy drive belt: https://console5.com/store/msx-floppy-drive-belt-3-5.html #tandy #laptop #septandy ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFJ4akFRGVU

This old Seagate hard drive makes some very unique sounds: when it spins up, it performs a seek test, and when you turn it off, it turns the spindle motor into a generator and uses the generated electricity to park the heads. This is the ST-277R-1, the 66-megabyte RLL version of a hard drive that was most commonly sold as the ST-251, a 43-megabyte MFM drive. As the Red Hill Guide explains it, "The ST-251 made a unique hollow knocking noise on start-up, once heard never forgotten, and by far the most distinctive sound of any drive yet made." A very common hard drive in late 286 and early 386 era PC clones. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh6sd-kdFFg