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Tandy Radio Shack |
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| MANUFACTURER |
Tandy Radio Shack |
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| TYPE |
Home Computer |
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| ORIGIN |
U.S.A. |
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| KEYBOARD |
Full stroke keyboard, 92 keys, 12 function keys |
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| CPU |
Intel 8088 |
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| SPEED |
4.77 MHz |
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| RAM |
128 KB (up to 640 KB) |
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| TEXT MODES |
80 x 25, 40 x 25 |
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| GRAPHIC MODES |
MONO/CGA/TGA, 160 x 200 (16 colors), 320 x 200 (16 or 4 colours) , 640 x 200 (2 or 4 colours) |
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| COLORS |
16 foreground colours + 8 background colours |
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| SOUND |
3 voices + 1 sound channel |
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| SIZE / WEIGHT |
354 x 290 x 97 mm / 17 lbs |
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| I/O PORTS |
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) |
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| BUILT IN MEDIA |
one or two 5.25'' floppy disk drives (360 KB, DS 40 Trk) |
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| OS |
MS-DOS 2.11, DeskMate 1.0 and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system |
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| POWER SUPPLY |
Built-in power supply (120VAC,50/60 Hz,54 Watts) |
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| PRICE |
$1199 (USA, 1984)\
22 600 FF (France, june 85) |
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| TANDY 1000 |
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| PICTURE FROM FRENCH PRESS |
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| MAIN UNIT |
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| DETAIL |
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From left to right:
- Reset button\
- Keyboard connector\
- 2 x joystick connectors (labeled left & right) |
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| UC & KEYBOARD |
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| INSIDE |
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Motherboard and two expansion cards. |
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| REAR |
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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) |
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| DRAWING |
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... from the official Service Manual |
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| US ADVERT (1984) |
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| NEW-ZEALAND ADVERT (OCT. 1985) |
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from Bits & Bytes magazine |
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| TANDY JOYSTICK |
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| TANDY 300 BAUD MODEM |
with box & doc |
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| MESS |
http://www.mess.org |
Multiplatform |
This famous emulator can emulate Tandy 1000 systems |
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| RadioShackCatalogs.com |
http://www.RadioShackCatalogs.com |
Here, you can actually/virtually flip-through the pages to view the content of every RadioShack catalog! |
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| INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE |
ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ |
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[**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) |
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| TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL |
ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ |
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[**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) |
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| TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE |
ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ |
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[**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) |
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| TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL |
ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/ |
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[**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) |
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| Ethan (United States) |
Wednesday 26th January 2022 |
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 |
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| Ethan (United States) |
Wednesday 26th January 2022 |
Just trying to figure out what this computer monitor is |
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| Greg Bzdell (Canada) |
Monday 24th May 2021 |
DeskMate, in all its forms, was effing wonderful. I still use the last version in DOSBox. Sublime. |
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| Greg Bzdell (Canada) |
Monday 24th May 2021 |
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. |
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| Sammy Fox (Canada) |
Tuesday 4th May 2021 |
Stephen Britt, I''m in canada. how much would you sell it for? my email is everett1911@hotmail.com |
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| Stephen Britt (United States) |
Saturday 1st May 2021 |
I have a still in the box Tandy 1000 with original monitor also in original packing. Received on 12/26/84. Looking to sale! |
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| Deirdre (US) |
Monday 28th September 2020 |
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! |
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| Rich Nord (USA) |
Saturday 25th April 2020 |
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. |
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| Jon W (Wisconsin) |
Tuesday 22nd October 2019 |
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. |
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| The Wizard (USA) |
Thursday 30th August 2018 |
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. |
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| SteveAngel (United States) |
Sunday 26th November 2017 |
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! |
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| Guy (Hawai''i) |
Tuesday 2nd August 2016 |
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!) |
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| Skel (Canada) |
Friday 30th January 2015 |
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. :) |
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| Tony (United States) |
Monday 17th June 2013 |
I have a Tandy 1000 with Monitor, keyboard, and a Tandy Dot Matrix Printer 430. Used very little |
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| Logan (Arkansas) |
Monday 17th October 2011 |
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. |
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| Logan (Arkansas) |
Monday 17th October 2011 |
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. |
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| Logan (Arkansas) |
Monday 17th October 2011 |
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. |
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| Logan (Arkansas) |
Monday 17th October 2011 |
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. |
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| Pat (Canada) |
Wednesday 18th May 2011 |
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! |
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| Steve A (USA) |
Monday 20th September 2010 |
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 :) |
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| Robert H (USA) |
Tuesday 31st August 2010 |
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 |
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| Seth (Earth) |
Thursday 8th February 2007 |
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. |
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