I relisted the one complete unit and the one that just needs a drive
on ebay. Only a couple of watchers and no bos. A bit over 2 days to
go.


--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com

What are the item numbers or your seller ID?

Neil

From: shadow@...

I relisted the one complete unit and the one that just needs a drive
on ebay. Only a couple of watchers and no bos. A bit over 2 days to
go.

On 7 Jul 2009 at 11:46, Neil Morrison wrote:

> What are the item numbers or your seller ID?

kengrx is the id...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:I
T&item=300327367386
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:I
T&item=300327367556

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com

Anyone have a contact for TVDog that works? I've been trying to connect to the
ftp archive to get a techref and it hasn't responded in 48 hours now. Email to
the addresses on the TVDog site have been returned (not accepting email).

I've sent a request in to Trixter, but he hasn't responded yet (not that I'm
complaining, it has been less than a day).

Thanks,
Kelly

I had gotten my hands on a 1000hx that passed on, and thought why not adapt the
top of it to the 1000ex, thing is the EX can't power the floppy drives through
the cable, so i took the drive cage from the hx, put a standard floppy in it.
And it WORKS, i can have 2 floppies inside the EX 3.5" 0f course, But this opens
up the possibility of me adding a hard drive to it, internally. So, i've got all
the support chips from the HX, including the 720k drive....

The FTP site seems to be working now.

--- In Tandy1000@yahoogroups.com, "Kelly Leavitt" <kelly@...> wrote:
>
> Anyone have a contact for TVDog that works? I've been trying to connect to the
ftp archive to get a techref and it hasn't responded in 48 hours now. Email to
the addresses on the TVDog site have been returned (not accepting email).
...

Anybody know what the difference between the Tandy 1000 and 1000A is?  I
finally added a 1000 to my collection, but it's actually 1000A.  Just
curious what the difference is...

Thanks,

Wesley

According to the "1000s Tech Notes & Jumper Manual", the 1000A is different from
the 1000 in that it has a math co-processor socket and an updated BIOS ROM.
Tandy also corrected some technical issues the original 1000 had, and apparently
the motherboard layout is somewhat different.

--- In Tandy1000@yahoogroups.com, "Wesley Furr" <wesley@...> wrote:
>
> Anybody know what the difference between the Tandy 1000 and 1000A is?  I
> finally added a 1000 to my collection, but it's actually 1000A.  Just
> curious what the difference is...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wesley
>

I found a few minutes and plugged in and fired up that 1000A that got.
Seems to work beautifully...the drives both work and it booted up a T1000
dos 2.11 disk I had.  Pretty amazing...

At any rate...I cheated and hooked it up via the composite video out.  I
have a TV tuner card in my computer with a composite input, so you can sorta
say I'm using a VGA monitor on it.  ;-)  At any rate...it works fine until I
load deskmate (looks like the original old version) or basic - as soon as it
switches video modes, the display (composite input video window in this
case) starts jumping around like the sync is off or something.

Is this normal when using composite video?  Or am I doing something wrong?
Or maybe my tuner card just doesn't like it?  A C+A+D reboot starts it up
just fine again...

Says it has 384k - I'm assuming the 128k on board, then it has a serial card
with the clock and battery on it (not sure what part is standard and what is
the add-on part of that board) - apparently 256k on it.  It also has a
Microsoft bus mouse card installed.  Is there any place out there to buy RAM
chips that would go on the board to bring it up to 640k (other than the
obvious used places like ebay)?

Thanks,

Wesley

It's been sitting in storage for 20+ years. You can have it for
shipping from Portland Oregon.

I'd rather it go to someone who can use it than wind up in a
dumpster.

--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com

you sure it's gonna work after been sitting for 20 years?
might wanna plug it in and atleast turn it on before even considering shipping
it

I think I just snagged a real rarity on ebay...a Tandy 1000 AX!  According
to the Tandy 1000 FAQ at:

http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html

It's "mostly the same as an SX".  From what little I've found about it, they
were sold through Wal-Mart stores.  Anybody know any more details?  It must
be pretty rare, as there really isn't hardly any info to be found when
searching Google.  I'll be sure to share what info I can find once I have it
in hand.

The FAQ also makes mention of another rarity, the 1000 PC.  I saw somewhere
mention that it was like the SL.  Anybody know anything more about it?

Wesley

Yeah, I haven't seen them many times on eBay. They might be the rarest of the
1000 series, although the TL/3 and RSX seem quite rare now as well. According to
this, the AX was sold during the late '80s and was similar to the TL and SL:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.tandy/browse_thread/thread/7bdca5d66a335\
aec/

The "1000s Tech Notes & Jumper Manual" has a bit of information about the AX. It
indicates that the AX has an 8088 or 8086 and is similar to the SX. The manual
also mentions the 1000PC and states that it is not much different than an SL.

It ought to be interesting to see exactly what the AX is like when you receive
it

--- In Tandy1000@yahoogroups.com, "Wesley Furr" <wesley@...> wrote:
>
> I think I just snagged a real rarity on ebay...a Tandy 1000 AX!  According
> to the Tandy 1000 FAQ at:
>
> http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html
>
> ...

1000rsx rare? Naaaaaaa. i've got 3 of them.......... an RLX and an RL. I've also
got a weird EX, it's been modded to have the top of the HX with the 3.5hdd
inside, works quite well..

Yeah, it does seem like more people post on forums and such about their RSXs,
they just seem hard to find for sale. Maybe people don't give them up so easily
:) I got outbid on an RL some time ago and ended up buying an RLX/B - not sure
how rare they are but it's nice having DOS 5.0 in ROM.

--- In Tandy1000@yahoogroups.com, If you want to know just ask <k2x4b524p@...>
wrote:
>
> 1000rsx rare? Naaaaaaa. i've got 3 of them.......... an RLX and an RL. I've
also got a weird EX, it's been modded to have the top of the HX with the 3.5hdd
inside, works quite well..

I saw someone on ebay was selling an 8088 CPU from a Tandy 1000HD.  I
emailed to ask if they had the computer it came out of.  They replied back
and said "sorry boards were shredded on Friday 8/14/2009."

Argh...what a waste...

Wesley

That's what I had seen too...I just wonder though what "similar to" and "not
much different than" really mean...

Wesley


-----Original Message-----

Yeah, I haven't seen them many times on eBay.

--- In Tandy1000@yahoogroups.com, If you want to know just ask <k2x4b524p@...>
wrote:
>
> ...one of them has the cards that let you use tandy sound and graphics.


Which cards would those be?

A rom drive cant be cleared it can be fried which your motherboard wont work if
the rom chip is burnt but if the battery isnt replaced you cant access the rom
and if you dont run the setup program it wont access . last reason is if you
have a hardrive thats not a smartdrive on is not formated in dos 5 you have to
run a sys file to access the rom again.

A ROM *drive* can't...but the RAM chip containing that data could be
replaced.  I know you used to be able to get ROM burners that you could use
to write data to a ROM chip.  Programmable ROM chips have a clear window on
top that is covered by a sticker - if you remove that and put it in a
special device (that emits UV light as I recall?) it would clear the chip so
you could re-burn it.  In the case of this ROM with an odd version of DOS in
it, I'm guessing someone read the data off of the original and somehow
programmed their own chip to replace the original one.

Wesley


-----Original Message-----

A rom drive cant be cleared it can be fried which your motherboard wont work
if the rom chip is burnt but if the battery isnt replaced you cant access
the rom and if you dont run the setup program it wont access . last reason
is if you have a hardrive thats not a smartdrive on is not formated in dos 5
you have to run a sys file to access the rom again.

I had found out that the Tandy 1000AX was supposedly sold only through
Wal-Mart.  I did a Google search for "tandy 1000 wal-mart" and found this:

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n14_v27/ai_6490354/

It doesn't specifically say "1000AX" - but everything seems to match up from
what info is available.  It also helps explain why it is so rare.

I've got the AX in my possession now (have had for a while), just need to
post some more info and photos.  Does anyone have an SX they can thoroughly
photograph and make notes about so we can compare?  I have two TX's, but no
SX's.  Or maybe someone wants to trade an SX for a TX?

Now does anybody know anything about the apparently even more rare 1000PC?
I have yet to find anything other than TVDog's FAQ (and what was mentioned
here before) about it being rare and similar to the SL.  It's about
impossible to find anything, because when you search for "Tandy 1000PC"
everyone calls the Tandy 1000's of any model a "PC".  Do we have any clue
where they were sold?  Was this another Wal-Mart or other venue sort of
thing?  If it's like the SL, should be around the 1989 timeframe...?

Thanks,

Wesley

If you want to check out the 1000 SX (and other models), there are a few
pages.  Here's a link:
http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/trs1000.htm

jbs


Wesley Furr wrote:
> I had found out that the Tandy 1000AX was supposedly sold only through
> Wal-Mart.  I did a Google search for "tandy 1000 wal-mart" and found this:
>
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n14_v27/ai_6490354/
>
> It doesn't specifically say "1000AX" - but everything seems to match up from
> what info is available.  It also helps explain why it is so rare.
>
> I've got the AX in my possession now (have had for a while), just need to
> post some more info and photos.  Does anyone have an SX they can thoroughly
> photograph and make notes about so we can compare?  I have two TX's, but no
> SX's.  Or maybe someone wants to trade an SX for a TX?
>
> Now does anybody know anything about the apparently even more rare 1000PC?
> I have yet to find anything other than TVDog's FAQ (and what was mentioned
> here before) about it being rare and similar to the SL.  It's about
> impossible to find anything, because when you search for "Tandy 1000PC"
> everyone calls the Tandy 1000's of any model a "PC".  Do we have any clue
> where they were sold?  Was this another Wal-Mart or other venue sort of
> thing?  If it's like the SL, should be around the 1989 timeframe...?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wesley
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

Just saw this ebay auction - go to ebay.com and search for 140359293757.
Looks like an SL/TL model and an earlier 1000 with what appears to be CM-11
monitors.  Plus some other junk.  It's pickup only though...  Thought I'd
pass it along in case anyone is nearby and interested...

Wesley

what else does the 1000 have with it?