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@RetroTechChris
Jan 4, 2024 • 18 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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Oh my freaking goodness! Original box and all for this Tandy 1000 SX that arrived today. Let's explore!


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Okay, opened it up, and I have some homework to do! Let's look at all 4 of the expansion cards, one by one. Image
The first one is easy. Serial card. Tandy branded as one would expect 🤣
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The second one is an RLL controller card with an option ROM. I am not sure I will be sourcing a drive to get this going 😅. minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Wester…
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The next one is a Bernoulli PC2/50 controller card for the Bernoulli drive. Neat!
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Woah! The final card? It's a 286 accelerator card! Now THAT is cool!! Image
There is a SmartWatch installed, probably completely dead (@wrljet to answer your question, this is where the battery is, contained in here) Image
Making a 720k boot disk! Image
Booted up! Now time to find an XTIDE and really have some fun! Image
Okay, quick detour: I just had to fire up the Bernoulli drive. Sound on for this!
Found it! That took way too long 😅 Image
Haha, I think the Bernoulli is detected as a "foreign hard disk" Image
Haha, uh oh 😅. Might be time to pop out the Bernoulli Image
Took the Bernoulli card out and now the XTIDE HDD is detected. I bet I have a conflict.
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Loading a new XTIDE BIOS before we get too far along! Image
Alright, looking good! Let's pop the Bernoulli back in Image
Angriness 😅. Okay, off to learn how this works. Image
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Nov 10
It's another beautiful day here... and time to clean and test some more LTE 5000 systems! And since I am taking an extended weekend, we have time to do this. Let's get to work. 🧵 Image
So, first, the tarp earned its pay. It rained a bit overnight. Most systems did stay dry. No concerns here! I thought the tarp had a small hole in it. Indeed it did 😂 Image
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Before we proceed, I do have a confession: late last night, I did pull one more system off the stack, clean it up, and try to test it. Sadly, it's dead. Oh well, we will deal with that later. Image
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Ooookay, one more laptop today. A few folks have asked "how about the red laptop? Does it have a chance?" Well, I think I'd say "kindof, with some help!" Let's explore in a 🧵 here! Image
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Initially, I started out with some Goof Off to clean off the paint. That damaged the screen cover's plastic. But I soon learned that would not matter. Because, well, here's the screen. Also, look at that nice red HDD cover. Paint on the keyboard too. Oh boy! Image
After some effort, I got the battery out. It was sealed by the paint. Now we can take a look inside. Lovely! Image
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Nov 9
Shall we continue our LTE 5000 series cleaning and testing? I'm glad I covered them with a tarp, we had some condensation overnight!! This one is a LTE 5380 without any drives. It cleaned up nice and it does power up!! Image
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Okay, second one is a little rough. Cleaned up. Powered on once but won't power on again. Image
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Next one! Cleaned up. Powered right up. A nice LTE 5380 Image
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Nov 8
I've cleaned and tested three of my $10 laptops so far. And they are flawless!! Image
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The fourth one I cleaned is a little rough (bad screen bezel, failing HDD, battery was taped in, and mouse pointer is bad) but hey it at least powers on! Image
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Nov 8
Time for the System Source Swap Meet pics I took... in no particular order. Let's goooo! 🧵 time.

First we have an Amiga with some Macs, etc. Also, tons of interface cards. Some cool Apple stuff. And some IBM PCs! Image
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More PCs, macs, laptops, and some software! The boxed copy of StuffIt Deluxe caught my eye! Image
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One seller impressively had the original boxes for most of his stuff! Image
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Nov 2
It's always fun to install "older" OSes on systems not designed for them. Given that, how about we install Windows '98 SE on this Dell Latitude D600 with a Pentium M processor? Let's have a look at it in a 🧵 here! Image
So, first and foremost, this site is AWESOME! There is a bundle of drivers that you can download, and inside the bundle is a readme file with some very clear instructions on what to do! retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2018/05/dell-l…Image
I kicked off the install, and not far into the process, we ran into an issue since this system has more than 512MB of memory. I had to add a line to system dot ini under the [386enh] section as you see here (MaxPhysPage=20000). After that change, install proceeded! Image
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