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Tandy Radio Shack 1000 SX
Computers
Home Computer
U.S.A.
1986
Intel 8088
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1000 SX /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_1s.jpg /companies/tandy-radio-shack Tandy Radio Shack
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NAME 1000 SX
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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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YEAR 1986
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KEYBOARD Full stroke keyboard, 90 keys, 12 function keys, numeric keypad
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CPU Intel 8088
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SPEED 4.77 MHz / 7.16 MHz
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CO-PROCESSOR Intel 8087 math. coprocessor available as an option
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RAM 384 KB (up to 640 KB)
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TEXT MODES 80 x 25 / 40 x 25
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GRAPHIC MODES CGA/TGA, 160 x 200, 320 x 200, 640 x 200
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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 / 31 lbs
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I/O PORTS 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)
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BUILT IN MEDIA one or two 5.25'' floppy disk drives (360 KB)\ 3.5
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OS MS-DOS 3.22, DeskMate II and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system
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POWER SUPPLY Built-in power supply
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PERIPHERALS memory expansions, internal modems, 20 MB hard disk, etc.
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PRICE $849 (USA, 1988)
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1000 SX /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_1.jpg
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1000 SX RUNNING DESKMATE /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000sx_3.jpg
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TANDY 1988 CATALOG Thanks to [SWITCHTECH'S Tandy 1000SX page](http://www.switchtech.us/Tandy1000.html) for this picture /media/museum/pubs/tandy_1000sx_catalog.jpg
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TANDY JOYSTICK /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_joy_1.jpg
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TANDY 300 BAUD MODEM with box & doc /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_300baudmodem.jpg
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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)
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DOSBox http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox Windows Exellent PC emulator to play old DOS games, including Tandy 1000 ones
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MESS http://www.mess.org Multiplatform This famous emulator can emulate Tandy 1000 systems
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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!!
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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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Tandy 100 Webring http://r.webring.com/hub?ring=tandy1000 dedicated webring listing Tandy 1000 websites
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Tandy 1000 EX/HX, PCjr videogames http://www.brooksdeforest.com/tandy1000/ Games for download
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Tandy 1000 roms http://retrograde.trustno1.org/tandyroms.htm BIOS roms to use with emulators
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Tandy 1000-series FAQ http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html Excellent FAQ. Very complete
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Wikipedia - Tandy 1000 entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000 Nice article from Wikipedia
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Web Wiz CAPTCHA http://www.webwizcaptcha.com FTP Mirror Site for Tandy 1000 programs and documentation
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Dodge SE (United States) Tuesday 25th May 2021 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.
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Dodge SE (United States) Tuesday 25th May 2021 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.
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Stephen Britt (United States) Thursday 18th March 2021 I have a Tandy 1000 complete, with monitor still in the original packing for sale!
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Don. Monday 23rd November 2020 I still have mine. It came with two floppy drives.
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Bob Dog (Canada) Tuesday 17th September 2019 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.
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Brent Goeller (United States) Thursday 27th July 2017 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.
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Roberto (Panama) Monday 24th August 2015 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 :( )
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Robert (Panama) Monday 24th August 2015 I''m pretty sure the processor was an 8086, slight different than the 8088... can you confirm?
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scott (Ohio/USA) Monday 11th August 2014 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.
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dan Thursday 2nd June 2011 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
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Carl (usa) Friday 27th August 2010 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.
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Jim (USA) Thursday 19th February 2009 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!
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Jim (USA) Thursday 19th February 2009 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.
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Matt (Michigan) Tuesday 2nd October 2007 I recently recieved one of these, but mine has 1 5" floppy drive, and 1 3" drive.
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The Tandy 1000 SX was similar to the Tandy 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 on the same software. The SX also comes with more memory (384 KB) than the Tandy 1000 (128 KB).

Contributors: Derek McDonald (aka “Skel”)

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