New (and last ?) inbound

[HigashiJun]

Here's what I've found in the living room today:

Hmm, what could it be ?

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Let's open the box:

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No way, is it...

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Yay, a nice and clean Tandy 1000EX !

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Now I have to explain to the wife how this lovely machine reached me...

More to come later.

:D

[rubber_jonnie]

Oooh nice, IIRC they have a good sound subsystem.

Oh, and I think you should hide it very quickly :)

[HigashiJun]

Oh, and I think you should hide it very quickly :)

Too late...

:(

[rubber_jonnie]

Oh, and I think you should hide it very quickly :)

Too late...

:(

:lol:

:dizzy:

[HigashiJun]

Not really much time these last days to do something, but I managed to squeeze some precious minutes to take care of my newcomer.

The Tandy was first cleaned, but since it was in a pristine condition, there was no much work here.

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The most annoying was cleaning the gooey residue left after the rubber feet went missing.

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I will surely clean the keyboard a bit more, but I'm not in a hurry now.

I removed the RAM and DMA expansion and filled the empty sockets with DRAM chips, so now I have an unbelievable amount of 640 KB (Thanks @Steve !) RAM. :lol:

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Next steps are:

- Replace the missing rubber feet
- Replace the Intel 8088 with a NEC V20
- Change the 360 KB 5,25" FDD for a 720 KB 3,5" one
- Fit a VGA board
- Add an XT CF-IDE
- Install an RTC

and check if this lovely mouse works:

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Hopefully, I should have some time during my 2 weeks break starting at the end of the month.

Some parts are already waiting for install, so fingers crossed for the rest of them.

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Stay tuned.

[rubber_jonnie]

Very nice, looks to be in great condition.

What are the leads hanging out of the back? Just GND connections?

[HigashiJun]

It really is in great condition, and I didn't expect that.

The leads are GND connections for external drive and printer.

[Steve]

When you said 640MB RAM I did a double-take lol :)

[HigashiJun]

:lol:

I didn't realize the goof...

I'm so used to modern stuff that saying 640 KB seems so unnatural.

[rubber_jonnie]

:lol:

I didn't realize the goof...

I'm so used to modern stuff that saying 640 KB seems so unnatural.

I'm so used to only having 64KB of RAM I didn't notice :)