What got me -- and my jaw DROPPED when I saw this because it was just so obscure and specific -- was the fact that the point-of-sale computer prop in the video

What got me -- and my jaw DROPPED when I saw this because it was just so obscure and specific -- was the fact that the point-of-sale computer prop in the video store was a Tandy 2000. The weird, but powerful in its day, PC-incompatible DOS computer that would pave the way for the Tandy 1000 and Radio Shack's whole PC line. The Tandy 2000 in the show was shown with the Tandy VM-1 monochrome monitor option with tilt and swivel stand. However it's showing a color display -- in a VGA-like font. The actual Tandy 2000 font looked quite different, more like a Kaypro or MicroBee system font, and is available in the Old School PC Font Pack: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?tandy2k https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/font?tandy2k Theoretically, showing a VGA font in text mode would have been possible on the 2000, as unlike the contemporary MDA or CGA, the Tandy 2000's video adapter supported font reprogramming. But hardly anyone did this because hardly anyone wrote software for the 2000. However, the use to which it was put is period accurate. Despite being considerably more powerful than any IBM PC available through the mid-80s, and so being used as a CAD workstation and spreadsheet powerhouse (its peculiar system architecture meant it had a fast 8 MHz 80186, no 640k barrier, and 720k floppies to the PC's 360k), by 1987 (when season 4 is set) it was clear the machine was a flop and it would be discontinued the following year. Unsold stock would be converted to POS terminals for Radio Shack locations; before then they were available for a song and probably pressed into POS service by mom and pop shops on a budget -- like video stores. Yes, we had one when I was growing up so I'm somewhat fond of this underdog machine. It has, among other things, the distinction of being the first machine I programmed Lisp on.