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[date: 2004]
2004
Installed an ATI VGA graphics card.
2023
Early in 2023, I did a complete disassemble, clean, and reassemble of this machine. While disassembled, I replaced the noisy original power supply fan with a quieter Noctua NF-R8 1800.
Upgraded from the original Tandy Enhanced Keyboard to the Northgate OmniKey/102. The OmniKey has jumpers under the "OmniKey/102" badge which allow it to be compatible with various older machines (IBM, XT, AT, Tandy SX and TX, Amiga, and some AT&T). In several areas, the Tandy 1000 TL is more like an IBM XT than the older Tandy 1000 models. Configuring the OmniKey for the XT (_not_ the 1000 SX/TX) works wonderfully.
Installed the XT-IDE 8-bit ISA card, to support modern PATA drives. I plan to pair this with an older 256MB industrial PATA flash. This is the original revision 1 card, with an old 1.0.0 RC BIOS, so I also plan to upgrade the BIOS.
ELKS boots! But it does not yet recognize any networking card in this computer. This may just be an IRQ configuration issue.