First post, by Shponglefan
- Rank
- l33t
Acquired this Tandy 1000 TL last year.
It's going to need some restoration work to remove rust on the metal frame and a good cleaning. The volume knob is also broken so that needs repair as well. I've tested the system and everything seems to work, including the disk drive. Although the latter does struggle reading disks, so I imagine it needs a good cleaning.
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Updated: build has been completed.
Final build specs:
- 80826-8 CPU and 80827 math coprocessor
- 768K installed RAM
- Paradise PVGA1A VGA video card
- Media Vision Thunder Board sound card
- Lo-tech 2 MB EMS card
- Lo-tech MIF-IPC-B MPU-401 MIDI interface card
- Blue Lava Systems XT-IDE / CF adapter card + 128MB CF card
- HDD Clicker
I did attempt at using a PK-X486S50-3 286-to-486 processor upgrade, but didn't get the performance I expected (it actually ran far worse).
Pics of the final setup have been added.