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title: Tandy Radio Shack 1000 SX
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1986'
cpus:
- Intel 8088
params:
name: 1000 SX
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_1s.jpg
company: /companies/tandy-radio-shack
company_name: Tandy Radio Shack
specs:
- label: NAME
value: 1000 SX
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Tandy Radio Shack
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: '1986'
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full stroke keyboard, 90 keys, 12 function keys, numeric keypad
- label: CPU
value: Intel 8088
- label: SPEED
value: 4.77 MHz / 7.16 MHz
- label: CO-PROCESSOR
value: Intel 8087 math. coprocessor available as an option
- label: RAM
value: 384 KB (up to 640 KB)
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 80 x 25 / 40 x 25
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: CGA/TGA, 160 x 200, 320 x 200, 640 x 200
- label: COLORS
value: 16 foreground colours + 8 background colours
- label: SOUND
value: 3 voices + 1 sound channel
- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
value: 354 x 290 x 97 mm / 31 lbs
- label: I/O PORTS
value: keyboard, 2 x joysticks, RGBI color monitor video output, composite video output, lightpen port, parallel port, serial port, 5 internal expansion slots, audio output (mono)
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: |-
one or two 5.25'' floppy disk drives (360 KB)\
3.5
- label: OS
value: MS-DOS 3.22, DeskMate II and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply
- label: PERIPHERALS
value: memory expansions, internal modems, 20 MB hard disk, etc.
- label: PRICE
value: $849 (USA, 1988)
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- emulators
- links
- docs
photos:
- title: 1000 SX
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_1.jpg
- title: 1000 SX RUNNING DESKMATE
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_3.jpg
adverts:
- title: TANDY 1988 CATALOG
subtitle: ''
text: Thanks to [SWITCHTECH'S Tandy 1000SX page](http://www.switchtech.us/Tandy1000.html) for this picture
image: /media/museum/pubs/tandy_1000sx_catalog.jpg
hardware:
- title: TANDY JOYSTICK
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_joy_1.jpg
- title: TANDY 300 BAUD MODEM
subtitle: with box & doc
text: ''
image: /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_300baudmodem.jpg
emulators:
- title: Tand-Em
url: http://www.emu-france.com/?page=fichiers&idMachine=157
platform: MS DOS
text: Only dedicated Tandy 1000/IBM PC Jr emulator (offical site seems dead)
- title: DOSBox
url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox
platform: Windows
text: Exellent PC emulator to play old DOS games, including Tandy 1000 ones
- title: MESS
url: http://www.mess.org
platform: Multiplatform
text: This famous emulator can emulate Tandy 1000 systems
links:
- title: Radio Shack systems documentation
url: http://support.radioshack.com/productinfo/ProductResults.asp?Name=Tandy_Desktops&ID=001001001
text: Radio Shack still offers some old docs on their support site. Download while available!!
- title: RadioShackCatalogs.com
url: http://www.RadioShackCatalogs.com
text: Here, you can actually/virtually flip-through the pages to view the content of every RadioShack catalog!
- title: Tandy 100 Webring
url: http://r.webring.com/hub?ring=tandy1000
text: dedicated webring listing Tandy 1000 websites
- title: Tandy 1000 EX/HX, PCjr videogames
url: http://www.brooksdeforest.com/tandy1000/
text: Games for download
- title: Tandy 1000 roms
url: http://retrograde.trustno1.org/tandyroms.htm
text: BIOS roms to use with emulators
- title: Tandy 1000-series FAQ
url: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html
text: Excellent FAQ. Very complete
- title: Wikipedia - Tandy 1000 entry
url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000
text: Nice article from Wikipedia
- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
text: FTP Mirror Site for Tandy 1000 programs and documentation
docs:
- title: INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE
url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_introduction.jpg
text: |-
[**INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 7 MB\
 source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
- title: TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL
url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandu_1000_dos_manual.jpg
text: |-
[**TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 8 MB\
 source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
- title: TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE
url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_programmers-reference.jpg
text: |-
[**TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 6.5 MB\
 source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
- title: TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL
url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_service-manual.jpg
text: |-
[**TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
 type of document : PDF\
 size : 13.5 MB\
 source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
comments:
- author: Dodge SE (United States)
date: Tuesday 25th May 2021
text: I bought mine with 384Kb of RAM and at the end of use, around 1990. I had an Everex 1200 Baud modem and 128Kb of RAM from a donor AST computer. I have in storage and will probably fire it up to play Starflight or Gunship, one more time.
- author: Dodge SE (United States)
date: Tuesday 25th May 2021
text: I bought mine with 384Kb of RAM and at the end of use, around 1990. I had an Everex 1200 Baud modem and 128Kb of RAM from a donor AST computer. I have in storage and will probably fire it up to play Starflight or Gunship, one more time.
- author: Stephen Britt (United States)
date: Thursday 18th March 2021
text: I have a Tandy 1000 complete, with monitor still in the original packing for sale!
- author: Don.
date: Monday 23rd November 2020
text: I still have mine. It came with two floppy drives.
- author: Bob Dog (Canada)
date: Tuesday 17th September 2019
text: |-
The 1000SX was the first DOS computer I owned...in 1992, when I bought it used. It was underpowered compared to new machines on the market, but it still worked (though 16kb of the 640kb didn''t, down to 624).
With an external 20MB HDD, a 3.5" drive raided from a 1000HX (and an adapter) and a 14.4K modem, I was able to do my comp sci work and other from home. It was good enough for logging in to the college''s VAX via Kermit, later for using Lynx on the local Freenet. I wouldn''t be able to live with it today, but I''m glad I had it at the time.
- author: Brent Goeller (United States)
date: Thursday 27th July 2017
text: Why do you guys talk in past tense? Mine is still played by my kids. Mine is seriously upgraded and maxed out. I debate all the time on restoring the yellow case, but I''m afraid if I completely tear it down, it won''t turn back on when I put it back together. There are some awesome mods available to use SD cards out there so you don''t need the floppies anymore. I learned to program on this computer in 1990.
- author: Roberto (Panama)
date: Monday 24th August 2015
text: I stand corrected, the 8088 was the correct model of cpu, a variant of 8086 with "turbo" mode... (I got it in my head the other way around, but a few searches made me remember 8086,286,386...), I loved that computer btw, King''s Quest II was a delight for that time and my age...(never played the I :( )
- author: Robert (Panama)
date: Monday 24th August 2015
text: I''m pretty sure the processor was an 8086, slight different than the 8088... can you confirm?
- author: scott (Ohio/USA)
date: Monday 11th August 2014
text: |-
I have this model.. Still works too.As does the printer that came with it.\
My dad used it to do alot of his writing before I updated him to a Linux pc
Back in the day I added Ram to it so the 1000sx could get max of 640k It needed that in order to run software like\
Spinnakers eight-in-one\
still love to find a HD for it.
- author: dan
date: Thursday 2nd June 2011
text: My first computer was a 1000sx and as I got to play Tandy 16-color games like Black Couldron and King''s Quest, tetris, it was a treat. The DMP-130 though didn''t work well
- author: Carl (usa)
date: Friday 27th August 2010
text: This was my first computer and it was amazing for the time. A friend bought me Starflight and I played it around the clock for 2 days. Games were hard to find back then but I met a teacher who ran the computer dept. for the Caddo Parish school system and I didn''t have that problem anymore. I wish the games today were as much fun as back then.
- author: Jim (USA)
date: Thursday 19th February 2009
text: This was my first "real" computer! My buddy worked at Tandy in Ft. Worth and scored an employee deal ($500?). I was Hot Stuff amongst the clan when we got the 20 meg HD . . . Explaining you could put about SIXTY current day floppies on it!
- author: Jim (USA)
date: Thursday 19th February 2009
text: It was a real work-horse for the price and era. We had one in a college apartment that was used and abused and never missed a beat. I was still using it with a daisly wheel printer in ''93 to start a business.
- author: Matt (Michigan)
date: Tuesday 2nd October 2007
text: I recently recieved one of these, but mine has 1 5" floppy drive, and 1 3" drive.
related:
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-ex
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-hx
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sl-sl-2
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-tx
oc_id: 1215
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603005019/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1215
date: '2023-06-03'
---
The Tandy 1000 SX was similar to the [Tandy 1000](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000/) (see this entry for more info about the Tandy 1000 series).
The difference with the original model 1000, is that the CPU (Intel 8088) can be set to two different speeds: 4.77 MHz and 7.16 MHz thus offering more speed than the original [IBM PC](/museum/ibm-pc-model-5150/) on the same software. The SX also comes with more memory (384 KB) than the [Tandy 1000](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000/) (128 KB).
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Contributors: Derek McDonald (aka “Skel”)
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