vwestlife
Veteran Member
I know quite a few people that purchased Tandy 1000s so I think it was reasonably successful.
It wasn't just "reasonably successful". The Tandy 1000 series was the USA's top-selling line of PC-clones in the late '80s.
I think what lost them a lot of market share in computers was not making an AT-class Tandy 1000 much sooner.
They had 286-powered models beginning with the 1000TX in 1987, but those were all still XT-class systems (with 8-bit ISA slots and an XT keyboard interface) until the very last model, the 386SX-powered 1000RSX. But having a true AT-class system was not really important for home consumer PCs until Windows 3.0 came out in 1990. Tandy tried to compete with Windows for a while with their DeskMate UI, and they even had DeskMate versions of applications like Lotus 1-2-3 and Quicken, but especially by the time Windows 3.1 came out in 1992, it was clear that Windows had won.