Tandy 1000TX available for the cost of shipping

[Erik]

Rosann (rosann1224@rcn.com) is looking to donate her Tandy 1000TX system to a collector for the cost of postage.

Please contact her directly if you are interested in the system, described below:


Tandy 1000 TX
Intel 80286
128 ram
640K extended memory
65 Meg hard drive
ms Dos 3.2 upgraded to 3.??
External slots 5
Monitor 600 x 200
3 1/2 " drive
5 1/4 " drive
built in modem
joystick
hard drive
Track star - a board that allows comp to also read apple disks
both serial port and parrallel port built in
joy stick ports
3 tone generator ?
volume control

Dot Matrix Printer with a full box of the paper with the holes on the side.

The machine is located in Chigago, IL, USA.

Good luck!

Erik

[Terry Yager]

The TrackStar card alone is well worth whatever the cost of shipping may be. It doesn't just read Apple disks, it is a full-fledged Apple ][ on a PC-bus board, allowing you to run Apple software on your PC. (It uses the PC's I/O channel and peripherals). Very rare and collectable...
It should also be noted that the TX, while using a '286 processor, it is tied to an 8-bit bus, so it doesn't access protected mode or any other features of the '286, (extended memory, etc) except some extra speed. There is certainly an error in the above posting, as the TX cannot use extended memory, however, it will take more than 640K on the mainboard, up to 768K, but the extra 128K is only used as video ram. Full documentation may be found here:

http://www.radioshack.com/ProdSupport/DocumentDetail/DocumentDetailIndex.asp?P=support_computer&D=2512&T=htm

Hope someone here manages to pick up this gem.

--T

[Terry Yager]

Oh yeah, IIRC the TrackStar card came in a coupla different flavors...one with 64K and another with 128K of RAM on-board, so the 128K version will run some pretty sophisticated Apple software. (I used to have an Apple card from another company, but it would only work as an Apple ][+ with 48K of RAM, so it was pretty limited in what software it liked or didn't like).

--T

[emp]

if it is still avalible, I am intested in getting it, please let me know, I will pay for postage+packaging, and some for their trubbles to get it to me.
Ezra Pedersen
ezra_at_pedersenfamily_dot_us

[vic user]

i have a 1000 hx, and it's a pretty sweet machine, but it is no where near as robust as this machine being donated.

well worth the shipping cost for sure

[gtort]

Has the 1000 TX been sold yet?

Thanks,
Glen