I purchased a 1000TL in 1989 when I was 15 years old. I saved up all my cash for an entire summer to buy it. I still have it, and it's still set up in my office for DOS gaming. I used the hell out of it! It still looks good too! My father had a 1000SX, and that was the first PC I ever played with. Good times.
I've had my HX and RSX since I was a kid, and damn if I'm ever getting rid of them! Just a few years ago, people were throwing them onto eBay for $100. Now, I've seen EX and HX's for easily twice that, never mind what a base 1000 or 1000A will go for.
The Tandy 1000 TL2 was my first computer in 1990 and I still have it and it works fantastic I think I’ll go play some kings quest. Thanks for the awesome video!
My first computer was the HX back in '88. The shots are interesting in that they aren't proprietary, but the form factor was. They were electrically standard ISA and you can easily adapt ISA cards to directly work in an HX/EX, space allowing.
Great video!! I own a Tandy 1000HX complete system. Monitor, printer, cassette drive, expansion pack, and a bunch of original software. I bust it out every year or so to make sure it all works. It's a pain in the ass to find good ink for dot matrix printers. It's a lot of fun to play leisure suit larry and king's quest 40 years later.
1st pc was a 1000SX. 30meg card drive, expanded memory, both types of floppy drives. If memory serves it had a modem, I remember 'surfing' bulletin boards. Once I went over 10k records in Deskmate II & it crapped itself.
I had the 1000 RLX with a 3.5" floppy drive and 20 Gig HDD. I had DOS 6.22, Desk Mate and a version of BASIC. The basic printer, great keyboard, mouse and sound!
My system was wonky as it jumped from DOS to Desk Mate at will (the computer's). I had a three-year Warranty, which meant I got a new hd in the system. It worked great!
The HX could only boot DOS from ROM (I grew up with this machine). You still needed a disk to load Deskmate. Some of the later models could boot both. Models after the RL still had the 3-voice Tandy Sound, but on a different address, so older games and software might need to be modified in order to find it. The RSX you show in that magazine ad looks more like the 2500 RSX, which is more or less identical to the 1000 RSX other than the additional 5.25" bay, and 3 ISA slots. The 1000 RSX was a slimline (like the RL) with a 3.5" floppy, and only 2 ISA slots.
Correction; The 1000SX came with 5 8-bit ISA slots - not 8
I purchased a 1000TL in 1989 when I was 15 years old. I saved up all my cash for an entire summer to buy it. I still have it, and it's still set up in my office for DOS gaming. I used the hell out of it! It still looks good too! My father had a 1000SX, and that was the first PC I ever played with. Good times.
Pretty cool video going over the various models of Tandy 1000 computers.
Thanks for putting this video together. It will help me sort out which models to buy when I get the chance.
I've had my HX and RSX since I was a kid, and damn if I'm ever getting rid of them! Just a few years ago, people were throwing them onto eBay for $100. Now, I've seen EX and HX's for easily twice that, never mind what a base 1000 or 1000A will go for.
I had a PCjr with 640k and a NEC V20 early on. Later I got a 1000 TL/2 that I ran at 12Mhz with the stock CPU.
The Tandy 1000 TL2 was my first computer in 1990 and I still have it and it works fantastic I think I’ll go play some kings quest. Thanks for the awesome video!
My first computer was the HX back in '88. The shots are interesting in that they aren't proprietary, but the form factor was. They were electrically standard ISA and you can easily adapt ISA cards to directly work in an HX/EX, space allowing.
Great video!! I own a Tandy 1000HX complete system. Monitor, printer, cassette drive, expansion pack, and a bunch of original software. I bust it out every year or so to make sure it all works. It's a pain in the ass to find good ink for dot matrix printers. It's a lot of fun to play leisure suit larry and king's quest 40 years later.
1st pc was a 1000SX. 30meg card drive, expanded memory, both types of floppy drives. If memory serves it had a modem, I remember 'surfing' bulletin boards. Once I went over 10k records in Deskmate II & it crapped itself.
Very well done and informative video!!
So glad my dad was cheap and bought a Tandy 1000EX... A great gaming computer!
I have a Tandy 2500 RSX. Where does that fall in the Tandy line?
This is great, thanks!
I had the 1000 RLX with a 3.5" floppy drive and 20 Gig HDD. I had DOS 6.22, Desk Mate and a version of BASIC. The basic printer, great keyboard, mouse and sound!
My system was wonky as it jumped from DOS to Desk Mate at will (the computer's). I had a three-year Warranty, which meant I got a new hd in the system. It worked great!
I loved Desk Mate!
$699.00 not including the Warranty!
What year did the TL/3 come out? You didn't mention it.
The HX could only boot DOS from ROM (I grew up with this machine). You still needed a disk to load Deskmate. Some of the later models could boot both. Models after the RL still had the 3-voice Tandy Sound, but on a different address, so older games and software might need to be modified in order to find it.
The RSX you show in that magazine ad looks more like the 2500 RSX, which is more or less identical to the 1000 RSX other than the additional 5.25" bay, and 3 ISA slots. The 1000 RSX was a slimline (like the RL) with a 3.5" floppy, and only 2 ISA slots.
Thanks from France
No, the first one was the Tandy 1000A
I bought the 1991 model