Editing Tandy 400

The '''Tandy 400''' was [[Strong Bad]]'s first computer. He answered emails reliably using it until the 33rd email "[[gimmicks]]," when it suddenly crashed and subsequently exploded. 

After using [[Tangerine Dreams]] to check his email during "[[weird dream]]," he got it working again in "[[sisters]]," although it was still misbehaving.

Strong Bad made do with the damage for a while until he returned from his vacation in "[[invisibility]]," replacing the Tandy 400 with the [[Compy 386]]. Tandy 400 made several disparaging remarks when it was thrown out, including: "386? More like three eighty SUCKS!"  

Tandy 400 haunted [[Strongbadia]] for some time. The computer appeared floating in mid-air in "[[ghosts]]," displaying a [[Bad Graphics Ghost]] on its screen.

[[Bubs]] later salvaged the Tandy 400 and sold it to [[The King of Town]], who attempts to [[King of Town Email|check his email]] with it in an easter egg in [[The King of Town DVD]].

<gallery>
Image:sbemail1.PNG|Strong Bad answering his first ever email with the Tandy
Image:Exploded_Tandy.PNG|<tt>YOUR TANDY A SPLODE</tt>
Image:Fixedished_Tandy.PNG|"I hate this computer."
Image:Garbage_Tandy.PNG|"Why Strong Bad? Why?"
Image:Ghost_Tandy.PNG|Tandy returns for revenge!
Image:Really_Old_Tandy.PNG|Tandy 400 appearing in flashback form in [[personal favorites]]
</gallery>

== Quick Facts ==

'''Debut''': "[[some kinda robot]]"

'''Interactive Feature''': You can click the contrast buttons in the lower-left corner to change the background color from black to green. The left button makes it darker and the right button makes it greener.

'''Font''': Westminster

== The Real Computer ==

[[Wikipedia:Tandy Corporation|Tandy Corporation]] is the name of the parent company of RadioShack, which helped to start the personal computer revolution with its [http://www.8bit-micro.com/model1.htm TRS-80] (affectionately known as the "Trash-80") in 1977. Tandy 400 probably gets its name from the [http://www.8bit-micro.com/tandy2000.htm Tandy 2000] and [http://www.8bit-micro.com/tandypc.htm 1000], Tandy's first [[Wikipedia:IBM PC compatible|"IBM-PC compatible"]] machines produced in 1984. However, Tandy never produced a "400" model, but [[Wikipedia:Atari|Atari]] produced an [[Wikipedia:Atari 8-bit family|Atari 400]] model in 1979, which was Atari's first (and weakest) personal computer.

The rainbow star logo on Tandy 400 is a play on an early [[Wikipedia:Apple Computer|Apple Computer]] logo which featured a rainbow-colored apple with a missing bite.

Some believe that the Tandy 400 is an Apple Computer due to the nature of the PROdos-like operating system and the monitor. In the [[strongbad email.exe|DVD]] commentary of "[[cartoon]]," Strong Bad refers to it as an "Apple monitor." 

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[[Category:Computers]]