Tandy 1000 TL/2 - Having Your Cake & Eating It Too
The Tandy 1000 was the first computer that I owned. I have very fond memories of it going all the way back to 1985. It is no wonder I own 5 of them in total. My Tandy 1000 TL/2 is what I am going to cover today and what makes it unique from all the other Tandy 1000s I have. In 1988 Radio Shack released the Tandy 1000 SL & TL computers. These had several enhancements over previous models. The graphics could now go all the up to 640x200x16 colors on a standard CGA monitor. It had a DAC for recording and playback of digital sound. MS-DOS 3.3 was included in ROM for almost instant booting of the computer without need for a floppy diskette. The keyboard connector was now a standard DIN5 keyboard connector and Tandy included an Enhanced 101 keyboard. System setup was done with a separate program that saved the system configuration to an EEPROM. The TL could be upgraded to 768K of memory. The extra 128K was then used for video memory freeing the lower 640K for DOS and user programs. The T...