The
Tandy 1000
computer system.
This is a model sold in the late 1980's, early 1990's, in
Radio Shack stores around the
United States. I am unsure of how far outside Radio Shack's influence spread, but I am pretty sure Tandy systems are mostly indiginous to
North America.
The Tandy 1000 computer system was designed to compete with
Big Blue's
PCjr system. However, weeks before the Tandy 1000 was due on the market, IBM dropped the PCjr line.
There are several models of the Tandy 1000:
- Tandy 1000 SL
- Tandy 1000 TL/3
- Tandy 1000 RL/2
- Tandy 1000 RL-HD
- Tandy 1000-RLX
- Tandy 1000-RSX
They had
30 pin SIMM memory, with a base of
640 K. A
VGA display.
AT keyboard and a serial mouse. Most interesting is that the Tandy also came with a rubber mat that was slightly larger than the computer so you didn't scratch your table. They used
5 1/4"
floppy disk drives and some models of Tandys had
hard drives that were around 20
MB or so.
See also:
oldskool.org.