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













































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


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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

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

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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.

-- Sean


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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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