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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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













































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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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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
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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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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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Oh!!! We have talked before, I believe. I remember that story! :(

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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

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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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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.

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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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Bo Holt wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

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!

I, to this day, would seriously consider picking up a Mac IIci with a
cache card, 12 mb of RAM and video card -- that was an incredible system
I ran in 1993-1995. Dependable, reliable...



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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

You said it! We didn't know how good we had it back then. We do now though. The 80's were a wonderful time in my life, and probably some of the best times. I remember thinking how "office" and "accounting" the Tandy looked to me, but I started with a VIC-20, then C64, then C128. I never did get an Amiga, and it seems I missed out on a lot of cool things. I set up my old C128 on a desk last week with a monitor for 80 col mode and a 1702 for the 40 col modes. I've been using a WiFi modem to get back into retrocomputing again. There are so many fun things being made by the people who grew up with the retro computers that we are talking about. Feels like fun times again.

Nos
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On Thu 25-Jun-2026 7:00p, Chris Coffin@1:154/5.0 said to Sean Dennis:

You said it! We didn't know how good we had it back then. We do now though.

I have begun to realize that I need to take a step back from social media and focus on my BBSs, FTN, and USENET due to the fact that I am tired of being targeted by anger, hate, and what not to force me to interact. It is not healthy!

At least on the BBS, I can chose exactly what I want to read, and thus reply to.. Facebook has gotten to the point were the equivelant would be everytime I login to my BBS the first thing I see are messages saying The Rat's Den Sucks! Not because that is the prevailing oppinion in the BBS community (Well, it might be), but because an algorythm somewhere knows that is the best way to get me to respond and make the system, network, or sub board more active.

(Sorry, a bit off the topic of the Tandy 1000.. I will go back in the corner and hand from the ceiling with my bats!).

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Chris Coffin wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

You said it! We didn't know how good we had it back then. We do now though. The 80's were a wonderful time in my life, and probably some of the best times. I remember thinking how "office" and "accounting" the Tandy looked to me, but I started with a VIC-20, then C64, then C128.
I never did get an Amiga, and it seems I missed out on a lot of cool things. I set up my old C128 on a desk last week with a monitor for 80 col mode and a 1702 for the 40 col modes. I've been using a WiFi modem
to get back into retrocomputing again. There are so many fun things
being made by the people who grew up with the retro computers that we
are talking about. Feels like fun times again.

The Tandy 1000 was built as a competitor to the IBM PC Jr. so it was meant to look like a PC hence the "office" look.

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (which I still have). I then went to a Coco 2, then a C 64, then into Macintoshes, then into PCs. I also have dabbled in minicomputers and mainframes but that was several decades ago.

I do like how retrocomputing has gone mainstream and now people are activly trying to preserve computing history.

I am setting up a FreeBSD system for testing of MBSE BBS software (I am on its development team), but I am attempting to get a VT102 dumb terminal so I
can connect it via serial cable to the FreeBSD box for the "old-school" experience. LOL

I am also an amareur radio operator so I love old-school stuff...I turn 54
next month so I am old-school myself. :D

-- Sean

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Rug Rat wrote to Chris Coffin <=-

I have begun to realize that I need to take a step back from social media and focus on my BBSs, FTN, and USENET due to the fact that I am tired of being targeted by anger, hate, and what not to force me to interact. It is not healthy!

Unfortunately, there's plenty of BS in Fidonet. But I usually con centrate on my own FTN network, Micronet, that I've run for 26 years. I'm still in
Fidonet for a few friends and taking care of a few echoes.

It's been said that ARPANET was declassified into the "Internet" in hopes
it would bring the world together and make us smarter. So far, in my opinion, it's doen the exact opposite...

But I enjoy retro things and don't let social media bother me. Some people like to make fools of themselves in public. :D

-- Sean

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On Fri 26-Jun-2026 12:49p, Sean Dennis@1:18/200.0 said to Rug Rat:

Unfortunately, there's plenty of BS in Fidonet. But I usually con
centrate on
my own FTN network, Micronet, that I've run for 26 years. I'm still in Fidonet for a few friends and taking care of a few echoes.

I will not deony that (The politics echo is a perfect example), however there is one hudge difference that makes social media much more insideous. As already mentioned in my original response. A BBS is not targeted. It does not keep track of what I response to, what I click thumbs down, or the angry face emoji to and know to make me read more posts with that content. Keeping their reaction metrics high and me coming back for more because I am now addicted to the dopamine hit.

That is why I want to take a step back and focus on BBSing again for awhile.

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On Fri 26-Jun-2026 12:32p, Sean Dennis@1:18/200.0 said to Nostalgi:

Chris Coffin wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

The Tandy 1000 was built as a competitor to the IBM PC Jr. so it was meant to
look like a PC hence the "office" look.

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000 (which I still have). I then went
to a Coco 2, then a C 64, then into Macintoshes, then into PCs. I also have
dabbled in minicomputers and mainframes but that was several decades ago.

I do like how retrocomputing has gone mainstream and now people are
activly
trying to preserve computing history.

I am setting up a FreeBSD system for testing of MBSE BBS software (I am on its
development team), but I am attempting to get a VT102 dumb terminal so I can connect it via serial cable to the FreeBSD box for the "old-school" experience. LOL

I am also an amareur radio operator so I love old-school stuff...I turn 54 next month so I am old-school myself. :D

I was a kid when I thought that about the Tandy. Child thinking not wanting to be an adult yet.

I'd love to see pictures of your VT102 dumb terminal working with your FreeBSD setup! Sounds super cool.

I never did get into Ham Radio. I'm two or three years younger than you, and Ham Radio scared me a bit. I enjoyed the anonymity of not having to speak, plus having a child sounding voice. I know BBSing kind of developed from Ham Radio enthusiasts and is why we get the "Handle" term. Still seems interesting. What do people talk about these days over HR?

The Tandy also had limited color graphics and inferior sound from what I remember back in the day compared to the Commodore 64 I had at the time and even though I thought it was cool, I just though the Tandy was for business, not 'fun' like my Commodore 64.
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It's been said that ARPANET was declassified into the "Internet" in hopes it would bring the world together and make us smarter. So far, in my opinion,
it's doen the exact opposite...

I agree. It's disheartening. Humans still, to this day, give into their carnal selves instead of developing a more structured and intelligent daily life. I can't say that for everyone, obviously, but back in the 80's I had hope for the future with shows like Star Trek that gave examples of a future without all of the issues we had in the 80's. The computers back in that time period seemed to give me hope that one day, we would use technology to cure all disease, explore the universe, become more socially connected, and stop comparing our individual self to others. Our need for a social community still exists. We are social creatures, but social media does it wrong. Social media compares, is opinionated, is hateful, is greedy, and wants our attention only for itself. The 'look at me' generation has been created without trying. In the 80's we were trying to bring more people together through the use of a higher form of communication, the BBS, which took some intelligence to understand and use. The internet has been dumbed down to a simple icon clicking device that anyone can use it. I come back to the BBS for the hope I once had. Maybe it's still here somewhere among the cobwebs.
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I'd love to see pictures of your VT102 dumb terminal working with your FreeBSD >setup! Sounds super cool.

At some point early in my linux experience, I was hoping to get hold of a
dumb terminal to hook up as a nostalgic nod to my early job working at a library. At the time I was living in a small enough place there really wouldn't have been any practical use for it. The "network" was all in one room. ;)

Mike


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I, to this day, would seriously consider picking up a Mac IIci with a
cache card, 12 mb of RAM and video card -- that was an incredible system
I ran in 1993-1995. Dependable, reliable...

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I've got a IIc something upstairs in need of a recap... actually all my IIs do. I just got one of my Classics and Color Classics logic boards back from Amiga of Rochester.

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On Sat 27-Jun-2026 9:46a, Bo Holt@1:129/305.0 said to Kurt Weiske:

I, to this day, would seriously consider picking up a Mac IIci with a cache card, 12 mb of RAM and video card -- that was an incredible

system

Yes, the IIci was probbably one of the best Mac IIs. it could be upgraded to a PPC 601, and coule natively support 64MB of RAM (Which for the tiem was quite the flex.).

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Re: Re: Tandy 1000 TX
By: Sean Dennis to Rug Rat on Fri Jun 26 2026 12:49:41

Some people like to make fools of themselves in public. :D

I think you can thank Jackass for that. What a bunch of morons.
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