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I bought mine with 384Kb of RAM and at the end of use, around 1990. I had an Everex 1200 Baud modem and 128Kb of RAM from a donor AST computer. I have in storage and will probably fire it up to play Starflight or Gunship, one more time.

I bought mine with 384Kb of RAM and at the end of use, around 1990. I had an Everex 1200 Baud modem and 128Kb of RAM from a donor AST computer. I have in storage and will probably fire it up to play Starflight or Gunship, one more time.

I have a Tandy 1000 complete, with monitor still in the original packing for sale!

I still have mine. It came with two floppy drives.

The 1000SX was the first DOS computer I owned...in 1992, when I bought it used. It was underpowered compared to new machines on the market, but it still worked (though 16kb of the 640kb didn''t, down to 624).

With an external 20MB HDD, a 3.5" drive raided from a 1000HX (and an adapter) and a 14.4K modem, I was able to do my comp sci work and other from home. It was good enough for logging in to the college''s VAX via Kermit, later for using Lynx on the local Freenet. I wouldn''t be able to live with it today, but I''m glad I had it at the time.

Why do you guys talk in past tense? Mine is still played by my kids. Mine is seriously upgraded and maxed out. I debate all the time on restoring the yellow case, but I''m afraid if I completely tear it down, it won''t turn back on when I put it back together. There are some awesome mods available to use SD cards out there so you don''t need the floppies anymore. I learned to program on this computer in 1990.

I stand corrected, the 8088 was the correct model of cpu, a variant of 8086 with "turbo" mode... (I got it in my head the other way around, but a few searches made me remember 8086,286,386...), I loved that computer btw, King''s Quest II was a delight for that time and my age...(never played the I :( )

I''m pretty sure the processor was an 8086, slight different than the 8088... can you confirm?

I have this model.. Still works too.As does the printer that came with it.
My dad used it to do alot of his writing before I updated him to a Linux pc

Back in the day I added Ram to it so the 1000sx could get max of 640k It needed that in order to run software like
Spinnakers eight-in-one
still love to find a HD for it.

My first computer was a 1000sx and as I got to play Tandy 16-color games like Black Couldron and King''s Quest, tetris, it was a treat. The DMP-130 though didn''t work well

This was my first computer and it was amazing for the time. A friend bought me Starflight and I played it around the clock for 2 days. Games were hard to find back then but I met a teacher who ran the computer dept. for the Caddo Parish school system and I didn''t have that problem anymore. I wish the games today were as much fun as back then.

This was my first "real" computer! My buddy worked at Tandy in Ft. Worth and scored an employee deal ($500?). I was Hot Stuff amongst the clan when we got the 20 meg HD . . . Explaining you could put about SIXTY current day floppies on it!

It was a real work-horse for the price and era. We had one in a college apartment that was used and abused and never missed a beat. I was still using it with a daisly wheel printer in ''93 to start a business.

I recently recieved one of these, but mine has 1 5" floppy drive, and 1 3" drive.