Okay, I figure I've lurked in this thread long enough, so here's my Tandy stuff
Tandy 1000 RSX, with VGM-300 monitor and MMS-10 multimedia system.
- 25MHz AMD CPU
- 387 Math co-processor
- 9MB RAM (1MB soldered to the MB, 8MB in 2 SIMM slots)
- AcuMOS onboard SVGA video with 256KB extra video RAM (total of 512KB), so I can run 640x480x256 colours, or up to 1024x768x16 colours in Windows.
- Tandy 3-voice sound (currently unused, since it uses a different port than the rest of the 1000 line, meaning that most games can't recognize it without being modified).
- 340MB IDE hard drive
- Installed Sound BLASTER 2 Pro card
- Installed ISA Adaptec AHA-1520B SCSI card
To the side, you can see the Iomega Zip100 drive piggybacked into the Tandy 1.2MB external floppy (both are parallel). Those sit on top of an external SCSI enclosure with a working SCSI CD-ROM and a dead 1GB SCSI hard drive (which I'll have to remove, but I wasn't using it anyways). Upgraded as it is, it JUST meets the minimum specs to play Sim City 2000.
Tandy 1000HX, with a Hewitt-Rand EGA-44 monitor, Tandy joystick, and DMP-105 dot-matrix printer.
- 7.44MHz Intel 8088 CPU
- 256KB onboard RAM with installed 384KB DMA/RAM card, total of 640KB.
- Dual 720KB floppy drives
- Tandy 16-colour graphics, and Tandy 3-voice sound
- DOS 2.11 in ROM
- Installed SPG 660 8-bit ISA multi-I/O card for 2 serial ports (for a Microsoft Serial Mouse) and a bi-directional parallel port (plus unused game port and floppy controller).
- Installed Custom built variant of the Lo-Tech ISA-CF rev.2 (see below).
This is more or less identical to the Lo-Tech card, but in the stacking "PLUS" form factor that the EX/HX use. Space constraints with the ISA I/O card forced me to build a custom board, rather than ordering one from Lo-Tech and using an adapter. I added an extra circuit to drive a two-colour LED, which replaces the power LED over the HX's keyboard. This glows green normally, but switches to red when there's CompactFlash activity. I currently have DOS 5.0 installed.
This machine is excellent for playing pretty much any of the older Sierra games, Kings Quest, Conquest of Camelot, Leisure Suit Larry, Zeliard, etc.
...And it was the machine of my early childhood (I think this picture was taken around 1991 or so). This is the same HX I had back then (actually it was my Dad's machine at the time), though I had ditched the monochrome Packard Bell monitor years ago. I was banging away on this keyboard before I could speak coherently :smile:
Tandy 1100FD, a recent addition to my collection.
- 10MHz NEC V20 CPU
- 640KB RAM onboard (an EMS card was apparently available, but I don't have it)
- 640x200 nematic LCD, with CGA emulation (see pictures below)
- 720KB floppy
- DOS 3.2 and DeskMate in ROM
This machine can "emulate" CGA, so you can play games, but the colours are inverted whether you set them up for CGA or monochrome mode. It is "technically" playable, but this machine was designed as a portable business machine, and works best for text. Despite the quality of my potato of a cellphone camera, the LCD is actually quite crisp and readable, even without an installed backlight. Below are comparisons of a few games between the 1100FD and the 1000HX.
Chess (CGA emulation vs CGA)
Zeliard (CGA emulation vs TGA)
Leisure Suit Larry (monochrome vs TGA)