Tandy breaks out the RLX - Tandy Corp's new 1000 RLX computer - product announcement

Home Office Computing, June, 1991

Looking for a reasonably priced computer? The Tandy 1000 RLX is based on a 10-MHz 80286 microprocessor and comes standard with a 40MB hard-disk drive, VGA support, and a 3.5-inch 1.44MB floppy-disk drive. Other standard features include a parallel and a serial port, stereo headphones, and a microphone jack. The mouse is also standard and comes with its own mouse port so that you don't have to sacrifice a COM port. List price for the system without a monitor is $1,200, and a color VGA monitor will cost you an additional $400. This system, although a 286, has an 8-bit data path as opposed to the typical 16-bit data path--translating into slower than average overall performance.

The 1000 RLX, like the 1000 RL, is designed to be left on all the time--but unlike other fanless computers, the casing does not get warm. Tandy claims--and delivers--"whisper quiet" operation. The 24 built-in DeskMate (Tandy's own graphical user interface) and DeskMate Home Organizer applications let you get to work immediately, offering solutions from organizing your address files to figuring out monthly business budgets. Tandy Computer, (817) 390-3011