• Tandy 1000 TX

    From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to All on Sun May 24 10:31:53 2026
    Greetings!

    I do my BBSing mainly on my Tandy 1000 TX or TL/2. I have a serial card with a 16550 UART, but I cannot locate the jumper on the TX motherboard (have not looked for on TL/2). I searched for schematics but must've been looking in the wrong places. All I found was an illegible diagram. Anyone have any personal experience with this?

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bo Holt on Thu May 28 18:24:32 2026
    Hello Bo,

    24 May 26 10:31, you wrote to All:

    I do my BBSing mainly on my Tandy 1000 TX or TL/2. I have a serial
    card with a 16550 UART, but I cannot locate the jumper on the TX motherboard (have not looked for on TL/2). I searched for schematics
    but must've been looking in the wrong places. All I found was an illegible diagram. Anyone have any personal experience with this?

    Nick Andre (1:229/426), who's a good friend of mine and a Tandy nerd, has a Tandy 1000. I don't know if he participates in this echo, but netmail him and see if he can help. He's a huge Tandy fan.

    -- Sean













































    -- Sean

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  • From Bo Holt@1:153/135 to Sean Dennis on Fri May 29 16:41:00 2026

    Hello Bo,

    24 May 26 10:31, you wrote to All:

    I do my BBSing mainly on my Tandy 1000 TX or TL/2. I have a
    serial BH> card with a 16550 UART, but I cannot locate the jumper on
    the TX BH> motherboard (have not looked for on TL/2). I searched for schematics BH> but must've been looking in the wrong places. All I
    found was an BH> illegible diagram. Anyone have any personal
    experience with this?
    Nick Andre (1:229/426), who's a good friend of mine and a Tandy nerd,
    has a Tandy 1000. I don't know if he participates in this echo, but
    netmail him and see if he can help. He's a huge Tandy fan.

    -- Sean

    Good afternoon, Sean!

    Thank you for the lead! In case I mess up the netmail (been a long time
    LOL), feel free to give him my email: bo.holt@gmail.com

    Hope to run into you more in this echo!

    Bo

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bo Holt on Mon Jun 1 15:38:03 2026
    Bo Holt wrote to Sean Dennis:

    Thank you for the lead! In case I mess up the netmail (been a long time LOL), feel free to give him my email: bo.holt@gmail.com

    You can email him at nandre@net229.org if you'd like.

    Hope to run into you more in this echo!

    I hope so. I'm also the moderator. LOL

    -- Sean
    (who has a strong love for TRS-80 Color Computers)


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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Sat Jun 6 09:16:14 2026

    I hope so. I'm also the moderator. LOL

    -- Sean
    (who has a strong love for TRS-80 Color Computers)


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    I reached him. Thanks!

    Then yeah,I suppose I will be running into you then!

    You're a CoCo fan I see? Though my first computer ws a Timex Sinclair, I really cut my computing teeth on a CoCo2 I got for my fifth birthday in 1986. I still have one I believe to be new in box, and I have a CoCo 3 setup in my living room. I want to do more CoCo stuff.

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bo Holt on Tue Jun 9 19:42:49 2026
    Bo Holt wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I reached him. Thanks!

    Great! Nick's a very knowledgeable and helpful guy.

    Then yeah,I suppose I will be running into you then!

    I hope so! :P

    You're a CoCo fan I see? Though my first computer ws a Timex Sinclair,
    I really cut my computing teeth on a CoCo2 I got for my fifth birthday
    in 1986. I still have one I believe to be new in box, and I have a CoCo
    3 setup in my living room. I want to do more CoCo stuff.

    Yes but my CoCo 2 was stolen in 1991 and I haven't had one since. I do use
    the ovcc emulator for fun.

    I started to cut my teeth programming on the CoCo 2. I later acquired a C64 that I went to town on. In 1987, I learned USCD Pascal on a TRS-80 Model III (what my high school had at the time) and I still use Pacal today though I
    am leanring C.

    -- Sean

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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Sun Jun 14 09:35:16 2026
    Oh!!! We have talked before, I believe. I remember that story! :(

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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Sun Jun 14 09:38:12 2026
    You're a CoCo fan I see? Though my first computer ws a Timex Sinclai I really cut my computing teeth on a CoCo2 I got for my fifth birthda in 1986. I still have one I believe to be new in box, and I have a Co 3 setup in my living room. I want to do more CoCo stuff.

    Yes but my CoCo 2 was stolen in 1991 and I haven't had one since. I do us the ovcc emulator for fun.

    I started to cut my teeth programming on the CoCo 2. I later acquired a C6 that I went to town on. In 1987, I learned USCD Pascal on a TRS-80 Model (what my high school had at the time) and I still use Pacal today though I am leanring C.

    -- Sean

    ... Confession is good for the soul but bad for your career.

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    Disregard last message... quote didn't work...

    I have talked to you before I believe because I remember that story! :(

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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Bo Holt on Sun Jun 14 11:52:27 2026
    Bo Holt wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I have talked to you before I believe because I remember that story! :(

    All these years later, that still upsets me. When I was growing up, we were poor and my parents really had to scrape up to come up with $300 back in 1984 to
    buy me the CoCo 2. I like my PCs but there was something special about the myriad of home computer models back then. I remember the massive "home computing" aisle at Toys 'R Us back then. I also remember how and all of my fledgling nerdy friends and I always discussed at school why we loved our particular computer the best. We just didn't know how good we had it back then.

    Fun fact: I was a Mac nerd long before I became a PC fan.

    -- Sean


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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Sean Dennis on Fri Jun 19 10:02:59 2026
    All these years later, that still upsets me. When I was growing up, we we poor and my parents really had to scrape up to come up with $300 back in 1 to
    buy me the CoCo 2. I like my PCs but there was something special about th myriad of home computer models back then. I remember the massive "home computing" aisle at Toys 'R Us back then. I also remember how and all of fledgling nerdy friends and I always discussed at school why we loved our particular computer the best. We just didn't know how good we had it back then.

    Fun fact: I was a Mac nerd long before I became a PC fan.

    -- Sean

    I would still be upset about it too!

    When I was a kid I had my CoCo2 at home, the TI-99/4A at my grandfather's, and an IBM XT at my aunt & uncle's house. Then one magical day in the late 1980s, my uncle brought a Macintosh II home from his office, and my mind was BLOWN. That is what made me start my vintage collecting with Macs!

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