Tandy 1000 TL/2

This is a very beat up Tandy 1000 TL/2 from 1989. Hooked up to it is a CM4 from 1986. I have to admit that if I were buying a computer in the mid 1980's I would probably go with a Tandy 1000, the graphics are similar to EGA (but much superior to the CGA of the time). However, I really love the Tandy 3-voice sound card. Almost every DOS game supported it, it was much more supported than Sound Blaster or Adlib, and best of all it had a volume knob! PC-Speakers can be obnoxious sometimes.

The specs are:
-80286 processor @ 8 MHz
-768 KB RAM
-DOS 3 with Windows 2.03
(DOS 3 and DeskMate 3 built into ROM)
-10 MB Hard Drive
-3.5" 720 KB Floppy Drive
-Tandy 3 Voice DAC Sound Card
-TGA Graphics (Max 600x200 16 colors)

The Programs Showed Are:
Windows 2.03, Outrun, Indianapolis 500, Landmark Speedtest 6.00, Sierra Hoyle Book of Games, Sierra's King's Quest I, Maniac Mansion, Tandy Deskmate 3

*Note the spoken Outrun intro only heard with a Tandy sound card

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Tandy
• 1000
• Tandy 1000
• TL/2
• Tandy 1000 TL/2
• Old Computer
• DOS
• MS-DOS
• DeskMate
• Outrun
• Maniac Mansion
• Windows 2.03
• Indianapolis 500
• Indy 500
• Speedtest
• Hoyle
• Sierra
• King's Quest
• Desk Mate

[kiyotewolf]

omg that voice sounded like Kevin Flynn

[smartalex61]

@kiyotewolf Haha, so funny you said that. I JUST went to go see Tron 2 last night.

[FondlesInTheDark]

I had never even seen Windows before 3.1!

[MrBoogs29]

My first pc

[thomaswoolum]

Do you still have that tandy computer now or not

[ZombieRyushu]

@CaptainPoovabladoo Of course. It can even play Wolfenstein 3D.

EGA is the actual successor to CGA, and it is programmed better and looks better.

[ZombieRyushu]

@CaptainPoovabladoo No, but I have found most games that support TGA also support EGA if not VGA. I've not run into a game yet that won't support EGA at least.

[ZombieRyushu]

@TeamRocketReviews It uses a Custom IDE Controller card from the XT-IDE project. It causes the IDE to CF Adaptor to be detected as a regular hard drive. It runs silently. As opposed to the *screech screech* the Hard drive you hear there in the Video. My Tandy has been upgraded to have VGA via a 16 bit VGA card connected to an 8-bit slot. So it can use EGA and VGA but not TGA.

It also has an AUI Network card that has an AUI to UTP tranciever and can connect to the network at 5 Mbps.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@ZombieRyushu That's amazing! I've heard of people booting 90's laptops with those, but a 1989 PC? Thats great.

[ZombieRyushu]

@TeamRocketReviews Not for sale, sorry. I recently finished restoring it, it now uses a Compact Flash Drive for a Hard drive and that was difficult to do.

[TeamRocketReviews]

@ZombieRyushu I'd love to buy one of them.