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Tandy Radio Shack 1000 TX	Computers	Home Computer	U.S.A.	1986	Intel 80286	name image company company_name specs tabs photos adverts hardware emulators links docs videos comments related oc_id source 1000 TX /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000tx_1s.jpg /companies/tandy-radio-shack Tandy Radio Shack label value NAME 1000 TX label value MANUFACTURER Tandy Radio Shack label value TYPE Home Computer label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR ? 1986 label value KEYBOARD Full stroke keyboard, 92 keys, 12 function keys label value CPU Intel 80286 label value SPEED 8 MHz label value RAM 640 KB (up to 768 KB) label value TEXT MODES 80 x 25 / 40 x 25 label value GRAPHIC MODES CGA/TGA, 160 x 200, 320 x 200, 640 x 200 label value COLORS 16 colours label value SOUND 3 voices + 1 sound channel label value SIZE / WEIGHT 354 x 290 x 97 mm label value I/O PORTS keyboard, 2 x joysticks, monitor video output, composite video output, lightpen, parallel port, serial port, 5 internal expansion slots, audio mono output label value BUILT IN MEDIA one 3.5'' floppy disk drive + optional 20 MB hard disk or 5.25'' floppy disk drive label value OS MS-DOS 3.22, DeskMate 2 and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system label value POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply label value PRICE $1000.00 US (1986) photos adverts hardware emulators links docs videos title subtitle text image 1000 TX /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000tx_1.jpg title subtitle text image US ADVERT /media/museum/pubs/tandy_1000series_pub_1.jpg title subtitle text image TANDY JOYSTICK /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_joy_1.jpg title subtitle text image TANDY 300 BAUD MODEM with box & doc /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_300baudmodem.jpg title url platform text Tand-Em http://www.emu-france.com/?page=fichiers&idMachine=157 MS DOS Only dedicated Tandy 1000/IBM PC Jr emulator (offical site seems dead) title url platform text DOSBox http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox Windows Exellent PC emulator to play old DOS games, including Tandy 1000 ones title url platform text MESS http://www.mess.org Multiplatform This famous emulator can emulate Tandy 1000 systems title url text Radio Shack systems documentation http://support.radioshack.com/productinfo/ProductResults.asp?Name=Tandy_Desktops&ID=001001001 Radio Shack still offers some old docs on their support site. Download while available!! title url text RadioShackCatalogs.com http://www.RadioShackCatalogs.com Here, you can actually/virtually flip-through the pages to view the content of every RadioShack catalog! title url text Tandy 100 Webring http://r.webring.com/hub?ring=tandy1000 dedicated webring listing Tandy 1000 websites title url text Tandy 1000 EX/HX, PCjr videogames http://www.brooksdeforest.com/tandy1000/ Games for download title url text Tandy 1000 roms http://retrograde.trustno1.org/tandyroms.htm BIOS roms to use with emulators title url text Tandy 1000-series FAQ http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html Excellent FAQ. Very complete title url text Wikipedia - Tandy 1000 entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000 Nice article from Wikipedia title url text Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com FTP Mirror Site for Tandy 1000 programs and documentation title url cover text INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_introduction.jpg [**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 url cover text TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandu_1000_dos_manual.jpg [**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 url cover text TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_programmers-reference.jpg [**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 url cover text TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_service-manual.jpg [**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) title url text Tandy 1000 TX - TV commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5gelel83u4 Length: 30 s author date text Joseph Linington (Canada) Thursday 26th January 2023 I had a Tandy 1000TX that my father bought in 1987 and was our family computer until 1991-1992. It was a very weird machine built on the Tandy 1000 XT platform with only support for 640k ram plus 128K extra video ram, no support for extended memory and only 8 bit ISA slots. All of this even though the TX had an 8Mhz 80286 processor. By the end of it''s life with me we had added a second floppy and a 20MB hardcard. The machine came with Dos 3.2 and did not have Dos or DeskMate in ROM like some of the earlier Tandy 1000''s. author date text Greg Bzdell (Canada) Monday 24th May 2021 The last copy of of MS-DOS I bought in a shrink-wrapped box was MS-DOS 4 and it worked great on this machine. I bought it at the Salvation Army thrift store in Estevan, Sk, Canada. author date text Greg Bzdell (Canada) Monday 24th May 2021 I posted this in the original 1000 forum. Sorry! 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. DeskMate, in all its forms, was effing wonderful. I still use the last version in DOSBox. Sublime. author date text Jeff Friend (Brisbane Australia) Friday 18th October 2019 My first computer was a Tandy 1000TX in 1989. No HDD, only 640K RAM and a single 1.4mb FDD. I ran everything from a MS-DOS 4.2 DOS prompt. About a year later, I upgraded the RAM to 768K and added a second FDD. This cost me about $2500. I gave that computer away in 1994. I wish I had of kept it... author date text John A Miller (United States) Saturday 1st April 2017 I have a Tandy-1000 TX in great condition. Anyone want it? call me. (912) 398-8632. author date text Thom (Central NJ) Saturday 21st July 2012 I owned a T1000 TX, and added aftermarket goodies: a 10meg hard drive card, a VGA card, and 2 meg of bank memory. I had given the computer to a co-worker in 1991, when I got a new computer, but I enjoyed that computer the most of all that I''ve owned. author date text HOLLY (Davie, FL, USA) Tuesday 24th April 2012 I need the keyboard for the tandy 1000tx. anyone? anyone? buehler, buehler???? author date text Marilyn Saturday 22nd January 2011 We still have a Tandy 1000 computer...it is approx 23 years old now. Still works, plus have the printer too. Anyone interested in buying it ? Please phone 641-512-2355\ We are in Iowa author date text Terry Mills (Mentor, Ohio, USA) Saturday 5th June 2010 This was my third computer and one of my favorites. I ran Autocad on this computer. This was one computer that never failed me. When the sever at work went down we could hook the drives up this baby and it always performed. In fact even though we could not even close the case it out performed the companies newer machines. author date text Ray Jewhurst (Roseville, MI) Saturday 14th April 2007 The second computer I ever owned was a Tandy 1000TX and boy did I love it. Mine had a 20 mb hard card and 768k RAM and a Smart Clock chip in it. I used to play the old SSI "Gold Box" D&D games on it and the graphics and sound for the time were amazing almost as good as EGA. /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-sx 1216 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230603010214/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1216 2023-06-03

The Tandy 1000 TX was similar to the Tandy 1000 in that it had an external keyboard and casing. The difference, however, was the addition of an 80286 CPU on the TX model; otherwise, it was nearly identical to the Tandy 1000, including the odd parallel port edge connector.

The TX had a 3.5" drive, with an optional 5.25" drive. It contained hookups for two joysticks in the front along with the keyboard, and included a volume control with a phono input on the front. The back had all of the same ports as the Tandy 1000. The memory size was 640k (upgradable to 768k, which was devoted to video) and the computer came bundled with Deskmate II.

The TX had a special function to the F4 key that would reduce the speed of the processor to half the normal rate for programs(mainly games) that 8-10 mhz was simply too fast for. To activate this function, you held down the F4 key during boot-up.

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