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title: Tandy Radio Shack 1000
categories:
- Computers
types:
- Home Computer
origins:
- U.S.A.
years:
- '1984'
cpus:
- Intel 8088
params:
name: '1000'
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_1s.jpg
company: /companies/tandy-radio-shack
company_name: Tandy Radio Shack
specs:
- label: NAME
value: '1000'
- label: MANUFACTURER
value: Tandy Radio Shack
- label: TYPE
value: Home Computer
- label: ORIGIN
value: U.S.A.
- label: YEAR
value: '1984'
- label: KEYBOARD
value: Full stroke keyboard, 92 keys, 12 function keys
- label: CPU
value: Intel 8088
- label: SPEED
value: 4.77 MHz
- label: RAM
value: 128 KB (up to 640 KB)
- label: VRAM
value: Unknown
- label: ROM
value: Unknown
- label: TEXT MODES
value: 80 x 25, 40 x 25
- label: GRAPHIC MODES
value: MONO/CGA/TGA, 160 x 200 (16 colors), 320 x 200 (16 or 4 colours) , 640 x 200 (2 or 4 colours)
- 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 / 17 lbs
- label: I/O PORTS
value: keyboard, 2 x joysticks (DIN6), RGBI monitor video output (DB9-F), composite video output, mono audio output, lightpen (DB9-M), parallel port, serial port (optional), three 8-bit XT internal expansion slots, audio mono output (RCA)
- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
value: one or two 5.25'' floppy disk drives (360 KB, DS 40 Trk)
- label: OS
value: MS-DOS 2.11, DeskMate 1.0 and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system
- label: POWER SUPPLY
value: Built-in power supply (120VAC,50/60 Hz,54 Watts)
- label: PRICE
value: |-
$1199 (USA, 1984)\
22 600 FF (France, june 85)
tabs:
- photos
- adverts
- hardware
- emulators
- links
- docs
photos:
- title: TANDY 1000
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_1.jpg
- title: PICTURE FROM FRENCH PRESS
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_2.jpg
- title: MAIN UNIT
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_main-unit.jpg
- title: DETAIL
subtitle: ''
text: |-
From left to right:
\- Reset button\
\- Keyboard connector\
\- 2 x joystick connectors (labeled left & right)
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_detail_1.jpg
- title: UC & KEYBOARD
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_3.jpg
- title: INSIDE
subtitle: ''
text: Motherboard and two expansion cards.
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_inside.jpg
- title: REAR
subtitle: ''
text: |-
From left to right:
\- Power in\
\- Printer edge connector\
\- Light pen (DB9 male)\
\- RGB monitor video output\
\- Video composite output\
\- Audio mono output\
\- Expansion card connector (unknown)
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_rear.jpg
- title: DRAWING
subtitle: ''
text: '... from the official Service Manual'
image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000_drawing.jpg
adverts:
- title: US ADVERT (1984)
subtitle: ''
text: ''
image: /media/museum/pubs/tandy_1000_pub_2.jpg
- title: NEW-ZEALAND ADVERT (OCT. 1985)
subtitle: ''
text: from Bits & Bytes magazine
image: null
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: Ethan Reno (United States)
date: Wednesday 26th January 2022
text: https://avatars.mds.yandex.net/get-images-cbir/2249218/Uz0jqlxYPLHl8x49YfcTiw0126/ocr Here’s the link to the image of it.
- author: Ethan (United States)
date: Wednesday 26th January 2022
text: I have a Tandy RGB high resolution color monitor CM – 1 with a weird eight pin tall display port and I cannot find a cable for it it has 6 pins at the bottom in a row going up then it has a space between with 2 pins together at the top. Kinda hard to describe it I tried using image searching and found nothing
- author: Ethan (United States)
date: Wednesday 26th January 2022
text: Just trying to figure out what this computer monitor is
- author: Greg Bzdell (Canada)
date: Monday 24th May 2021
text: DeskMate, in all its forms, was effing wonderful. I still use the last version in DOSBox. Sublime.
- author: Greg Bzdell (Canada)
date: Monday 24th May 2021
text: My first MSDOS-compatible comp was a Tandy 1000TX with a 20meg Hardcard. I rescued it from the landfill and it had CM-5 monitor. Great machine...... although not as good as my maxed-out CoCo 3. I wish I still had both of them.
- author: Sammy Fox (Canada)
date: Tuesday 4th May 2021
text: Stephen Britt, I''m in canada. how much would you sell it for? my email is everett1911@hotmail.com
- author: Stephen Britt (United States)
date: Saturday 1st May 2021
text: I have a still in the box Tandy 1000 with original monitor also in original packing. Received on 12/26/84. Looking to sale!
- author: Deirdre (US)
date: Monday 28th September 2020
text: My first computer bought w/Tandy credit card at 21$ interest, so I got the bare bones model. Used a black + white portable TV as a monitor. Not great when I was taking a BASIC programming class. Had to scroll up and down to see the line $s due to the curved left and right sides of the TV''s display. Loved DeskMate software!
- author: Rich Nord (USA)
date: Saturday 25th April 2020
text: We came across several discs. Basic and supplemental. 2 discs and deskmate discs 1-4. We have more if anyone is interested I can go through what we have. Let me know. Thanks.
- author: Jon W (Wisconsin)
date: Tuesday 22nd October 2019
text: My 3rd computer was a Tandy 1000SX, I stated with a Tandy Color Mini MC-10 and then a TRS-80 4P "portable". I have my original MC-10 and a 4P I was given a few years ago. Recently added a Tandy 1000 HD to the collection. The HD was the original 1000 with a factory Hard Drive.
- author: The Wizard (USA)
date: Thursday 30th August 2018
text: I have a growing collection of Tandy Computers and I am in need of software to use on them, I am not asking for freebies, and am willing to pay if need be. Thank You.
- author: SteveAngel (United States)
date: Sunday 26th November 2017
text: I had a base Tandy 1000. It definitely didn''t have DOS or Deskmate in ROM. I used the basic system until I realized it was almost unusable without the upgrade to 640K. I also had the Tandy 300 baud modem which was an abomination that had no speaker and couldn''t detect busy signal. I later upgraded to a 10 meg hard drive after I figured out how Tandy had flipped the Hard Drive and Video IRQ''s on the motherboard so you needed a specially modified Western Digital controller board to make it work. Despite all of that I loved the thing!
- author: Guy (Hawai''i)
date: Tuesday 2nd August 2016
text: I had both the Tandy 1000 (purchased in 1986) and the Tandy 1000 TL. I was very satisfied with both. I was a previous owner of the TRS-80 (my introduction to home computers and programming). The things which that drew me to the Tandy 1000-series were the price (several hundred dollars cheaper than the IBM counterpart), ease of upgrade (I always installed my own parts) and the 16-color monitor and 3-voice sound card (available in the PC Jr, but no one wanted a computer named Junior!)
- author: Skel (Canada)
date: Friday 30th January 2015
text: I HAD a Tandy-1000. It was in perfect working condition but sadly, when I had to move from a house to an apartment (downsizing) two years ago, it simply could not fit. I had a choice $ keep the Commodore 64 (the computer I had as a kid) or the T1000 (one that was gifted to me 10 years ago from family friends). The case of the computer was damaged in a house fire years before but it otherwise worked perfectly. In the end, it was scrapped for parts. :( I kept those parts and used them when I was teaching at university as part of a class project to construct a computer. :) In a way... it lives on. I enjoyed writing this article years ago and still love to read it. :)
- author: Tony (United States)
date: Monday 17th June 2013
text: I have a Tandy 1000 with Monitor, keyboard, and a Tandy Dot Matrix Printer 430. Used very little
- author: Logan (Arkansas)
date: Monday 17th October 2011
text: I have a tandy 1000 TL/2. It has 640kb of RAM, a 3.5 inch floppy drive for 760k disks, CGA monitor, and Deskmate 3. Deskmate comes with Hangman, a word processor, a program to create and record music, a worksheet program, a painting program, a caculator, some schedule keeping things, PC-Link, address keeping programs, a telephone answering program, and MS-dos 3.3. Deskmate and DOS are built into the ROM so it starts up very fast (3-6 seconds!). It has 4 8-bit ISA slots (I think), you can add an IDE hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive can be added. Somehow the monitor works even though one of the connection pins on the cable is missing. anyway its an excellent machine.
- author: Logan (Arkansas)
date: Monday 17th October 2011
text: I have a tandy 1000 TL/2. It has 640kb of RAM, a 3.5 inch floppy drive for 760k disks, CGA monitor, and Deskmate 3. Deskmate comes with Hangman, a word processor, a program to create and record music, a worksheet program, a painting program, a caculator, some schedule keeping things, PC-Link, address keeping programs, a telephone answering program, and MS-dos 3.3. Deskmate and DOS are built into the ROM so it starts up very fast (3-6 seconds!). It has 4 8-bit ISA slots (I think), you can add an IDE hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive can be added. Somehow the monitor works even though one of the connection pins on the cable is missing. anyway its an excellent machine.
- author: Logan (Arkansas)
date: Monday 17th October 2011
text: I have a tandy 1000 TL/2. It has 640kb of RAM, a 3.5 inch floppy drive for 760k disks, CGA monitor, and Deskmate 3. Deskmate comes with Hangman, a word processor, a program to create and record music, a worksheet program, a painting program, a caculator, some schedule keeping things, PC-Link, address keeping programs, a telephone answering program, and MS-dos 3.3. Deskmate and DOS are built into the ROM so it starts up very fast (3-6 seconds!). It has 4 8-bit ISA slots (I think), you can add an IDE hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive can be added. Somehow the monitor works even though one of the connection pins on the cable is missing. anyway its an excellent machine.
- author: Logan (Arkansas)
date: Monday 17th October 2011
text: I have a tandy 1000 TL/2. It has 640kb of RAM, a 3.5 inch floppy drive for 760k disks, CGA monitor, and Deskmate 3. Deskmate comes with Hangman, a word processor, a program to create and record music, a worksheet program, a painting program, a caculator, some schedule keeping things, PC-Link, address keeping programs, a telephone answering program, and MS-dos 3.3. Deskmate and DOS are built into the ROM so it starts up very fast (3-6 seconds!). It has 4 8-bit ISA slots (I think), you can add an IDE hard drive, and a CD-ROM drive can be added. Somehow the monitor works even though one of the connection pins on the cable is missing. anyway its an excellent machine.
- author: Pat (Canada)
date: Wednesday 18th May 2011
text: |-
Wow, what a trip down memory lane...
I bought the the original Tandy 1000 (4.77mhz, 128k ram, 2 5¼ disk drives, CGA monitor) for $1600can the year it came out (I was a teenager). I later bought an expansion board to bring the ram up to 640k, which also set be back some serious dough back then! :) It was indeed a beast in its days.
It''s unreal how many lawns I mowed and kids I babysat to pay for that toy!
- author: Steve A (USA)
date: Monday 20th September 2010
text: |-
The Tandy 1000 was my gaming machine, side-by-side with my Colecovision. While the Colecovision has long since been dead, my Tandy 1000 still runs when I hook it up. I still have 20+ games, all in 16 color glory.
It''s nice knowing it still chugs along, because it was a great introduction into PC gaming :)
- author: Robert H (USA)
date: Tuesday 31st August 2010
text: Much as I hate to argue, but the Tandy 1000 HX was not the first. The original was the Tandey 1000 (no letters after) I always wondered what dad $ped on mine was, but I spent many summers as a kid cutting grass just to pay him for it. It was my first true DOS pc. Prior to that I used a CPM board and a WHYSINC terminal. My T-1000 was a beast for the time I had the memory maxed, a 3.5 inch 720k floppy, and a 20 meg MFM HD card. (it was a drive mounted on a card that was latter replaced with two 70meg 5.25 full hight HD in a AT case. I went to the local computer junk store and had the ribbion cables custom made (about 3 feet a peiece. the data cable and the two control cables) I used that system till it finally died and I moved on the the 386/16mhz around 1988. It was the Best first real computer I ever hadm and even though I have sever Laptops and desktops with things that I never would have thought of then I still miss that old Tandy PC
- author: Seth (Earth)
date: Thursday 8th February 2007
text: As a child, we had the Tandy 1000 HD in our house, which was the original Tandy 1000, but with a 10MB hard drive in the 2nd bay instead of a floppy. I can't imagine what my dad dropped to buy that machine at the time (circa 1985). Let me tell you, this thing was a rock! I think it never actually died, we just ended up replacing it with a 386 at some point. I owe my DOS skills and lifelong fascination with computers to that system.
related:
- /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-sx
- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-tx
oc_id: 1210
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230530110459/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1210
date: '2023-05-30'
---
The Tandy 1000 was a line of [IBM PC](/museum/ibm-pc-model-5150/) compatible computers made during the 1980’s by the American Tandy Corporation for sale in their chain of Radio Shack electronics stores in Canada and the USA. The Tandy 1000 would be the successor to their influential [TRS-80](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-trs-80-model-i/) line of computers, the Tandy 1000 would eventually replace the [COCO](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-color-computer/) line of 8 bit computers as well when Tandy decided to prematurely end that project in favor of the Tandy PC line of computers.
Targeted toward the home user with a modest budget, it copyied the [IBM PCjr](/museum/ibm-pc-junior/)'s 16-color graphics (PCjr's graphics were an extension of CGA video) and anhanced 3-voice sound, but didn't use the PCjr cartridge ports, instead the Tandy version had built-in game ports compatible with those on the TRS-80 Color Computer (COCO), as well as a port for a "light wand/pen". Most Tandy 1000 models also featured “line-level” sound and composite video RCA outputs built onto the motherboard so that a standard television could be used as a monitor, albeit with much poorer video quality. Unlike most PC clones, early Tandy 1000 computers had MS-DOS built into ROM allowing the OS to boot in a few seconds. Tandy also bundled onto floppy diskette “DeskMate”, a suite of consumer-oriented applications, with several models. Besides a composite output to TV, as mentioned earlier, Tandy 1000’s also housed a built in CGA video adaptor equal to PC standards built onto the motherboard and since the Tandy 1000 outlasted the PCjr by many years these graphics and sound standards became known as "Tandy-compatible" or "TGA," and many software packages of the era listed their adherence to Tandy standards on the package. One odd feature of the Tandy-1000, however, was a non standard edge card printer connector built onto the motherboard and protruding through the rear; an adaptor would be needed to work a standard IBM style printer.
In 1984, when the “T-1000” was in its prime, you may have paid up to $2499.00 (Canadian) for a full featured system with matching monitor.
The original line was equipped with the Intel-8088 CPU at 4.77Mhz, which was later extended to faster clock speeds up to 7.16Mhz, as well as the upgrade to 8086 and 80286 processors at 10Mhz (in the TL & TX configurations). Common models of the machine included the Tandy 1000, [EX](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-ex/), [HX](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-hx/), [SX](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sx/), [TX](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-tx/), [SL](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sl-sl-2/), [SL/2](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sl-sl-2/), RL, and TL, TL/2, TL/3.
The “T-1000” was a workhorse in the IBM PC world, large numbers of units are still in active service today as it’s construction was quite robust. The T-1000 was Tandy’s last attempt in the home computer market. In the early 1990’s Tandy Corporation sold its computer manufacturing business to “AST Computers”. When that occurred, instead of selling Tandy computers, Radio Shack stores began selling computers made by other manufacturers, such as “Compaq”.
The original Tandy 1000 was similar in size to the IBM PC except it had a plastic case to reduce weight. The original Tandy 1000 featured a proprietary serial keyboard port along with 2 similar joystick ports on the FRONT of the case (a feature that would become standard in later models). The rear featured a PC standard monitor connector (compatible with CGA/EGA), a composite (TV) video-out connector, a single RCA-style monophonic line-level audio connector, a port for a light pen, and the unusual edge-card connector used to attach a parallel printer.
The original Tandy 1000 came standard with one 5.25 disk drive, with an additional bay usable for the installation of a second 5.25 disk drive (available as a kit from Radio Shack). 128k of memory was standard, with the computer accepting up to 640k of total memory with the addition of expansion cards. MS-DOS 2.11 and DeskMate 1.0 were included with the system.
The Tandy 1000 offered 256 characters: 96 standard ASCII characters, 48 block graphics characters, 64 foreign language/Greek characters, 16 special graphics characters, 32 word processing/scientific-notation characters.
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Contributors: Derek McDonald (aka “Skel”)\
Sources: Switchtec's Virtual PC Museum, Emperor Multimedia Electronic Archives, Wikipedia, 8-Bit Micro, Tandy 1000 PC Museum