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title: Tandy Radio Shack 1000 TX
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categories:
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- Computers
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types:
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- Home Computer
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origins:
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- U.S.A.
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years:
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- '1986'
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cpus:
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- Intel 80286
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params:
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name: 1000 TX
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image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000tx_1s.jpg
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company: /companies/tandy-radio-shack
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company_name: Tandy Radio Shack
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specs:
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- label: NAME
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value: 1000 TX
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- label: MANUFACTURER
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value: Tandy Radio Shack
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- label: TYPE
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value: Home Computer
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- label: ORIGIN
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value: U.S.A.
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- label: YEAR
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value: ? 1986
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- label: KEYBOARD
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value: Full stroke keyboard, 92 keys, 12 function keys
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- label: CPU
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value: Intel 80286
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- label: SPEED
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value: 8 MHz
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- label: RAM
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value: 640 KB (up to 768 KB)
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- label: TEXT MODES
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value: 80 x 25 / 40 x 25
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- label: GRAPHIC MODES
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value: CGA/TGA, 160 x 200, 320 x 200, 640 x 200
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- label: COLORS
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value: 16 colours
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- label: SOUND
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value: 3 voices + 1 sound channel
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- label: SIZE / WEIGHT
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value: 354 x 290 x 97 mm
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- label: I/O PORTS
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value: keyboard, 2 x joysticks, monitor video output, composite video output, lightpen, parallel port, serial port, 5 internal expansion slots, audio mono output
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- label: BUILT IN MEDIA
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value: one 3.5'' floppy disk drive + optional 20 MB hard disk or 5.25'' floppy disk drive
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- label: OS
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value: MS-DOS 3.22, DeskMate 2 and GW Microsoft Basic included with the system
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- label: POWER SUPPLY
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value: Built-in power supply
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- label: PRICE
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value: $1000.00 US (1986)
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tabs:
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- photos
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- adverts
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- hardware
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- emulators
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- links
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- docs
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- videos
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photos:
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- title: 1000 TX
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/photos/tandy_1000tx_1.jpg
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adverts:
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- title: US ADVERT
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/pubs/tandy_1000series_pub_1.jpg
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hardware:
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- title: TANDY JOYSTICK
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subtitle: ''
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_joy_1.jpg
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- title: TANDY 300 BAUD MODEM
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subtitle: with box & doc
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text: ''
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image: /media/museum/hardware/tandy_1000_300baudmodem.jpg
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emulators:
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- title: Tand-Em
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url: http://www.emu-france.com/?page=fichiers&idMachine=157
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platform: MS DOS
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text: Only dedicated Tandy 1000/IBM PC Jr emulator (offical site seems dead)
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- title: DOSBox
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url: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dosbox
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platform: Windows
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text: Exellent PC emulator to play old DOS games, including Tandy 1000 ones
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- title: MESS
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url: http://www.mess.org
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platform: Multiplatform
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text: This famous emulator can emulate Tandy 1000 systems
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links:
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- title: Radio Shack systems documentation
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url: http://support.radioshack.com/productinfo/ProductResults.asp?Name=Tandy_Desktops&ID=001001001
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text: Radio Shack still offers some old docs on their support site. Download while available!!
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- title: RadioShackCatalogs.com
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url: http://www.RadioShackCatalogs.com
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text: Here, you can actually/virtually flip-through the pages to view the content of every RadioShack catalog!
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- title: Tandy 100 Webring
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url: http://r.webring.com/hub?ring=tandy1000
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text: dedicated webring listing Tandy 1000 websites
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- title: Tandy 1000 EX/HX, PCjr videogames
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url: http://www.brooksdeforest.com/tandy1000/
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text: Games for download
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- title: Tandy 1000 roms
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url: http://retrograde.trustno1.org/tandyroms.htm
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text: BIOS roms to use with emulators
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- title: Tandy 1000-series FAQ
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url: http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html
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text: Excellent FAQ. Very complete
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- title: Wikipedia - Tandy 1000 entry
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url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_1000
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text: Nice article from Wikipedia
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- title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
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url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
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text: FTP Mirror Site for Tandy 1000 programs and documentation
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docs:
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- title: INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE
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url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
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cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_introduction.jpg
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text: |-
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[**INTRODUCTION TO THE TANDY 1000 - A TUTORIAL TO DESKMATE**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
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type of document : PDF\
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size : 7 MB\
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source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
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- title: TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL
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url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
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cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandu_1000_dos_manual.jpg
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text: |-
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[**TANDY 1000 - DOS MANUAL**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
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type of document : PDF\
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size : 8 MB\
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source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
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- title: TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE
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url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
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cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_programmers-reference.jpg
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text: |-
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[**TANDY 1000 PROGRAMMER'S REFERENCE**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
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type of document : PDF\
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size : 6.5 MB\
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source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
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- title: TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL
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url: ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/
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cover: /media/museum/docs/couvs/tandy_1000_service-manual.jpg
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text: |-
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[**TANDY 1000 SERVICE MANUAL**](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror/Tandy1000/documents/)written by Tandy Corporation
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type of document : PDF\
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size : 13.5 MB\
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source : [ftp.robertstinnett.com](ftp://ftp.robertstinnett.com/mirror)
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videos:
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- title: Tandy 1000 TX - TV commercial
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url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5gelel83u4
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text: 'Length: 30 s'
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comments:
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- author: Joseph Linington (Canada)
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date: Thursday 26th January 2023
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text: 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.
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- author: Greg Bzdell (Canada)
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date: Monday 24th May 2021
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text: 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.
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- author: Greg Bzdell (Canada)
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date: Monday 24th May 2021
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text: 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.
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- author: Jeff Friend (Brisbane Australia)
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date: Friday 18th October 2019
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text: 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...
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- author: John A Miller (United States)
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date: Saturday 1st April 2017
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text: I have a Tandy-1000 TX in great condition. Anyone want it? call me. (912) 398-8632.
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- author: Thom (Central NJ)
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date: Saturday 21st July 2012
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text: '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.'
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- author: HOLLY (Davie, FL, USA)
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date: Tuesday 24th April 2012
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text: I need the keyboard for the tandy 1000tx. anyone? anyone? buehler, buehler????
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- author: Marilyn
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date: Saturday 22nd January 2011
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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\
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We are in Iowa
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- author: Terry Mills (Mentor, Ohio, USA)
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date: Saturday 5th June 2010
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text: 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.
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- author: Ray Jewhurst (Roseville, MI)
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date: Saturday 14th April 2007
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text: 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.
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related:
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- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000
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- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-ex
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- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-hx
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- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sl-sl-2
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- /museum/tandy-radio-shack-1000-sx
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oc_id: 1216
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source:
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url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230603010214/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1216
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date: '2023-06-03'
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The Tandy 1000 TX was similar to the [Tandy 1000](/museum/tandy-radio-shack-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.
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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.
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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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Contributors: Derek McDonald (aka “Skel”), Casey
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