[Coco] Tandy 1000 (was: Another Radio Shack Article)

[Bill Loguidice]

I have a Tandy 1000, 1000 EX, 1000 SX (x2), 1000 TX, and 2000 HD (the giant
tower one) in that series. I always had a fondness for the TRS-80 Model
III/4 growing up and the Tandy 1000 because that's the series that my
school system in Sayreville, NJ, had invested in for the few BASIC
programming classes that I took (clearly there was a Tandy/RS contract in
place). I had a year or two with the III and 4 (I love all-in-one classic
computers), then for later grades, the 1000. Of course, at home, I mostly
had Commodore computers, a C-64 (after a short time with a VIC-20) and then
later an Amiga 500.

Prior to adding several CoCo's to my collection starting in the 90s, one of
my first jobs at 16 (~1988) at a five and dime type store had a CoCo 2 with
a tape drive running the business! Needless to say, that was a surprise to
me. In any case, the Tandy 1000-series systems are one of the few PC clones
worth collecting for, since most others were fairly bog generic. I'd say
overall they're the most collectible of the PC DOS-based systems outside of
original IBM's (which I have a few of as well).

-Bill

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On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Harry Hurst <hhos at st-tel.net> wrote:

> > I found the Tandy 1000 series to be compatible enough for my uses back in
> > the day.
> >
> > I'd put in a 20mb Hard Card, and install WordPerfect, Norton Utilities,
> > XTree, Procomm Plus (and a Modem), and a database program and work pretty
> > happily on it in the store.
> >
> > If I find one at a garage sale, or a swap meet... I'd grab one just to
> > have
> > one again. I prefer the later models like the TL, but even the first
> model
> > is useful.
> >
>
> I still have my original T1K. It's not working, but I wasn't really using
> it because I have a TX and a 2500SX/20. I still use the 2500SX
> occasionally, and the TX rarely. I can't remember any software
> compatibility problems with any IBM. I even ran several MSDOS disks on the
> T1K. Hardware was another matter, though. For instance, I had to change
> out ROMs before I could even run a hard drive in it, and the controller
> had to be made for, or modified for, the Tandy specifically.
>
> HH
>
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