[colug-432] Tandy 1000

[Aaron Howard]

My first PC was a tandy 1000. It had an 8086 with 640kb of RAM if memory
serves. Architecture was more like the PCjr than the PC. Had CGA graphics I
believe too. It has been a long time.
On Feb 14, 2012 2:45 PM, "Steve VanSlyck" <s.vanslyck at spamcop.net> wrote:

> Richard's email brings back some memories.
>
> If you had a Tandy PC in 1976 and tried to hook up a modem you quickly
> found you needed something called an "RS232" interface, which you then
> located, brought home, and connected up to the computer. You then plugged
> in your phone and tried to connect with your friend's computer across town.
> But after a bunch of whistles and wheezes while the two modems connected,
> all you got was a bunch of static. Modem didn't work at all!
>
> Well, not at least until you figured out that that the sound of a bit
> stream over phone lines is not, obviously, supposed to be silent.
>
> I learned shortly thereafter that technical writers cannot write, and when
> they do write, they LIE. How was *I* supposed to know that
>
>     function(string)
>
> really meant
>
>     function("string")
>
> if the Radio Shack people who wrote the manual couldn't bestir themselves
> to type in two little quotation marks! Caused me to give up a potentially
> lucrative career as a "computer operator" or even "coder," and remembering
> that afternoon still jams my geers today.
>
> A year or so later my dad reverse engineered Scripsit and (after pumping
> yards of paper through tour pinwheel Omni printer) published an article in
> PC Magazine on how to hack Scripsit to make it variable-space the output.
> My friend across town did not throw away his commercial-grade Varityper. He
> had, after all, to make a living.
>
> We were all loyal LDOS customers back then. And, later, loyal customers of
> eSoft, who wrote the best BBS software there was, 255 levels of security
> and all.
>
> Ah, thems were the days.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> Subject: Re: [colug-432] Tandy 1000
>
> > On 02/14/2012 02:03 PM, Thomas Cranston wrote:
> > > Any body interested in a Tandy 1000?
> > >
> > > Ran last time I used it.
> > >
> > > Comes w/Tandy:
> > > Keyboard
> > > Color Monitor
> > > Periperals
> > > Large Box O Software
> > >
> > > The original owner was a NASA scientist
> > >
> > > His daughter inherited it, and then gave it to me. Pretty much in
> > > original condition.
> > >
> > > I do not want to see it get trashed.
> > >
> > > Won't bring to Columbus for many moons. Will bring to interested party
> > > next time I come.
> > >
> > > Tom
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> >
> > Wow ... now ... the Tandy 2000 (TWO thousand) had the distinction of an
> > 80186 processor, the only 80186 PC that I ever encountered.  Not sure if
> > the T1K had the 186 or not.  Check.  These were fun machines, not to be
> > confused with TRS-80; they're real PCs (ie: INTeL/IBM class stuff).
> >
> > The Tandy 1000 looks (to me) rather like a PC jr.  I don't mean that in
> > a negative way.  More like "what the IBM PC jr wanted to be when it grew
> > up" kind of way.
> >
> > If that's an SX/TX, then it probably has a 286 instead of just an 8086.
> >
> > -- R; <><
> >
> >
> >
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