
Tandy 1000 TL
I grew up with an original 1000, so when I saw this on an online auction site available locally, I had to go for it. It's a 1000TL from 1988, with 768k of onboard RAM and an 8Mhz 286. Not a speed demon, but with the Tandy graphics and sound, it's awesome for most DOS games made between 1981 and 1992 (more or less). Here it's pictured with the obligatory Monkey Island intro screen.
It was extremely grimy when I got it. The keyboard needed complete disassembly and deep cleaning to get rid of 38 years of dust, grime and old soda, but just about everything else still worked. The exception was the 20MB hard card. Someday I'll spend more time to try to get it spinning to see what was on it, but for now I replaced it with a Picomem, which also gave it virtual hard drives, additional virtual floppies and AdLib support (fun to play around with, but I usually stick to the Tandy sound for authenticity). The Picomem took many weeks of trial and error to get it working how I want it, but it's an amazing device that really breathed new life into this machine.
I've been having a lot of fun with it. Mostly I pass the time tinkering with the configuration and getting games I enjoyed (or always wanted) as a kid to run on it properly. Not the most productive way to spend my spare time, but an awesome stress reliever.
I pretty much have it how I want it, though I'd like to add a dot matrix printer one day, and a superior CM-11 monitor to replace the CM-5 should I ever find one.