Tandy TRS-80 model 2000

Under construction.

The Model 2000 is the first PC like machine produced by Tandy. It is not compatible at the hardware level, but required a special version of MS-DOS. In the early days of the IBM PC, this was common.
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Main board main board The main board of the model 2000. The processor is an 80186 at 8 MHz, making it faster than the IBM PC and the first version of the AT (80286 at 6 MHz). Two small memory board were attached to the mainboard, in addition to the cards in the expansion cage.

In the white connector at the middle-left a riser card was placed, which provided the connectors for the expansion cards. This solution is similar to the Model 12 and 16b, but much more solid. These computers were targeted at professional usage.

Memory board
High resolution graphics card
Hard disk adapter


Last update: 2014-04-26

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