The Tandy 1000 TX was very similar to the Tandy 1000, having an external keyboard and similar casing. The most major difference was the addition of an 80286 CPU; otherwise, it was nearly identical to the Tandy 1000, including the odd parallel port edge connector. The TX had a 3.5" drive, with an optional 5.25" drive. It contained hookups for two joysticks in the front along with the keyboard, and included a volume control with a phono input on the front. The back had all of the same ports as the Tandy 1000. The memory size was 640k (upgradable to 768k, which was devoted to video) and the computer came bundled with Deskmate. The SX was identical to the TX except it used a 8088 processor and came with 2 5.25" drives.
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Josh Morgan on Wednesday, March 21, 2012 Oh yeah, my first computer. Played a lot of King's Quest on this bad boy. So many disks to insert....
Michael on Friday, April 08, 2011 My wife and I has a 1000 sx and we opted for the TrackStar 128 add on board. The TrackStar board, along with the trackStar disk, would transform the 1000 sx into an Apple 2e. Yes, I ran AppleWorks on an IBM clone.
James V Kautz on Friday, December 17, 2010 I used one of these and still have it in my garage, but it won't boot up anymore (too much sawdust, I think). I just can't seem to get rid of it. I wrote a lot of crappy poetry on it during college, and kept a journal on it too, earning me a nickname that I still have to this day - "Doogie."
I also had an expansion card with a 20 MB hard drive mounted on it and the serial mouse adapter card, as well as a whack of DeskMate software.
Jean-P. Meunier on Tuesday, November 02, 2010 For the 1000SX, both the second floppy disk drive and the 640k of RAM were upgrades. This was my first home computer, and I remember a LOT of disk swapping because we sprung for the 640k upgrade, but not the second drive...
It also didn't come with a hard drive! Oh, the memories...
 "Tandy 1000 SX")
