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Are there any experts on the Tandy Radio Shack Model 100 who would like to connect? #tandy1000 #radioshack

PROTECTING THE RIGHT TO REPAIR

The first computer in my house was a Tandy 1000. It was made by RadioShack and it was the coolest thing I had ever seen. Sure, it was not much to look at with its light brown plastic case and monochrome screen. I am pretty sure my calculator from middle school has more processing power. The laptop I am typing on right now is basically a supercomputer when put up against that Tandy, but it […]

I just stumbled upon this upgrade I would have leapt at a few years back when I was building up my "new" Tandy 1000HX:

Tandy 1000 EX/HX 3-in-1 V2 Adapter --- 640K RAM + 2x Serial + Parallel + XTIDE Upgrade by Rob Krenicki

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197473626636

It looks like the creator of this device, who posted the project to GitHub, has made his last production run, sadly. Several are available still on eBay.

It doesn't look like the RAM expansion has the DMA chip, but that really doesn't much matter. What a great unit. I upgraded my own 1000HX to this spec -- but did it the Hard way (note the capital H).

https://github.com/rkrenicki/Tandy-EX-HX-3in1

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I played this a lot back in 199x... On a VGA 386sx...

Kinda clunky on the 1000. The frame rate is a bit too low.