A Tandy 1000 HX with a Tandy DMP-133 dot-matrix printer

Home-based PCs such as the Tandy 1000 allowed up to three channels of sound for the and commands.

At its introduction, the 68000 was first used in high-priced systems, including multiuser microcomputers like the WICAT 150, early Alpha Microsystems computers, Sage II / IV, Tandy TRS-80 Model 16, and Fortune 32: 16 ; single-user workstations such as Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 Series 200 systems, the first Apollo / Domain systems, Sun Microsystems ' Sun-1, and the Corvus Concept ; and graphics terminals like Digital Equipment Corporation's VAXstation 100 and Silicon Graphics ' IRIS 1000 and 1200.

The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more-or-less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores.

Released in November 1984, the Tandy 1000 was followed by a series of models which appended two or three letters to the name, after a space ( e. g. Tandy 1000 EX, Tandy 1000 SX, Tandy 1000 TX, Tandy 1000 RL, Tandy 1000 RLX ).

( Hard disks were high end, not standard, equipment for home computers until the late years of the Tandy 1000 line, explaining the absence of an integrated hard disk controller from most Tandy 1000 motherboards.

This was done because changes in the market made it increasingly difficult for Tandy to make a profit on its computer line.

The EX and HX would be among the most popular of the Tandy 1000 line because of their low price.

The Tandy 1000 SX and TX were the first models in the Tandy 1000 line to have a built-in DMA controller.

TRS-DOS ( which stood for the Tandy Radio Shack-Disk Operating System ) was the operating system for the Tandy TRS-80 line of 8-bit Zilog Z80 microcomputers that were sold through Radio Shack through the late 1970s and early 1980s.

TRS-DOS should not be confused with Tandy DOS a version of MS-DOS licensed from Microsoft for Tandy's x86 line of personal computers ( PCs ).

Next, Inspiration Software created a line of products for the Tandy Model 100, the original notebook computer, which was used primarily by outside sales staff, writers and editors.

Other Tandy offerings, such as the TRS-80 line, are also very popular, and early systems, like the Model I, in good condition can command premium prices on the vintage computer market.

The TRS-80 MC-10 microcomputer is a lesser-known member of the TRS-80 line of home computers, produced by Tandy Corporation in the early 1980s and sold through their RadioShack chain of electronics stores.

The final line of dialogue, delivered by Tandy, was: ' You can't trust anyone these days, can you?

A Tandy Pocket Computer is one of a line of 1980s small pocket computers — calculator-sized programmable computing devices — sold primarily under the Tandy or Radio Shack brands, but were actually rebadged Sharp and Casio devices with different model names.

The Tandy 200 had a flip-up 16 line by 40 column display, and came with 24 KB RAM which could be expanded to 72 KB ( 3 banks of 24 KB ).

The last new model that could be considered part of this line was the Tandy 600, introduced in October 1985.

The last refresh to the product line was the Tandy 102, introduced in 1986 as a direct replacement for the Model 100, having the same software, keyboard and screen, and a nearly identical, but thinner, form factor.

Manufacturers included Casio, Hewlett-Packard, Sharp, Tandy / Radio Shack ( Selling Casio and Sharp models under their own TRS line ) and many more.

NTT was one of the first 3 traction cities to obtain Birney Safety Cars, the first city to fully equip a line with Birney Cars and a member of the Presidents ' Conference Committee, which produced the PCC streetcar ( although PCCs did not see service in Fort Worth until the advent of the Tandy Center Subway ).

* DOSBox MS-DOS, Tandy 1000, PCjr Emulator

Other than the Tandy 1000 and Amstrad IBM PC compatible lines a few years later, the dual built-in joystick ports introduced by the PCjr never became standard on IBM PC compatibles, and have not been seen since.

Tandy Corporation produced a clone of the PCjr, the Tandy 1000.

Since the PCjr was discontinued soon after the new computer was released in November 1984, Tandy had to hastily change its marketing strategy.

However, the machine and its many successors ultimately proved much more enduring than the PCjr itself, partly because the Tandy 1000 was sold in ubiquitous Radio Shack stores and partly because it was less costly, easier to expand, and almost-entirely compatible with the IBM PC.

Ironically, the enhanced graphics and sound standards the PCjr pioneered ultimately became known as " Tandy-compatible ", with the extended graphics modes eventually coined " TGA " ( Tandy Graphics Adapter ) graphics.

Nevertheless, later that year Tandy Corporation released the Tandy 1000, another IBM PC compatible that had originally been designed as an enhanced clone of the PCjr and which succeeded where the PCjr failed.

The same program also took advantage of the 3-voice sound chip built-in to the IBM PCjr and Tandy 1000.

King's Quest was innovative in its use of 16-color graphics on the PC, PCjr and Tandy 1000 ; even CGA owners could enjoy the 16-color graphics by using a composite color monitor or television, thanks to programmers exploiting the inaccuracies of composite NTSC chroma decoding.

* The game was first released in 1985 on a self-booting disk that supported CGA, PCjr, and Tandy graphics.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

The album lacked actual strings, replaced once again by synthesisers, played by Tandy.

Few personal computers used the 80186, with some notable exceptions: the Australian Dulmont Magnum laptop, one of the first laptops ; the Wang Office Assistant, marketed as a PC-like stand-alone word processor ; the Mindset ; the Siemens PC-D ( not 100 % IBM PC-compatible but using MS-DOS 2. 11: de: Siemens PC-D ); the Compis ( a Swedish school computer ); the RM Nimbus ( a British school computer ); the Unisys ICON ( a Canadian school computer ); ORB Computer by ABS ; the HP 100LX, HP 200LX, HP 1000CX and HP OmniGo 700LX ; the Tandy 2000 desktop ( a somewhat PC-compatible workstation with sharp graphics for its day ); the Philips: YES ; the Nokia MikroMikko 2.

Computer City was a supercenter concept featuring name-brand computers, software and related products ; by the end of 1993, Tandy had 40 locations, including three in Europe.

The DMA controller chip was included on the PLUS-type memory expansion board for the EX and HX, and on regular ISA memory expansion cards sold by Tandy and other companies for the 1000, 1000A, and 1000HD.

While the Tandy DAC's features compared favorably to those offered by Creative's 8-bit Sound Blaster audio cards, it never saw widespread adoption by software developers.

The devices were manufactured by Tandy and distributed by Casio, while Palm provided the PIM software.

** Tandy ( Australia ), former Australian subsidiary, now owned by Woolworths Limited

* " Tandy ", a short story by Sherwood Anderson, part of Winesburg, Ohio

The film was directed by Bruce Beresford, with Morgan Freeman reprising his role as Hoke Colburn and Jessica Tandy playing Miss Daisy.

With the market proved by the earliest manufacturers, larger companies soon began to take interest, sometimes successfully ( Tandy Corporation, Hewlett-Packard ), sometimes not ( Texas Instruments, DEC ).