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Feb 28, 2017
Complete your vintage Tandy experience
The Tandy VGM-300 is a robust color monitor for any vintage Tandy system using VGA output, such as the Tandy 1000RLX or 1000RSX, or other IBM-PC compatible machines with VGA output.
-Color VGA, Maximum resolution of 640x480
-Diffused screen surface for reduced glare
-Good EMI shielding inside the chassis
Later models could support higher resolutions, but all in all this is an excellent item to complete your vintage experience with your Tandy PC.
Dec 25, 2019
Vintage computer, as advertized.
Didn't come with the video cable, but that was easy to make up (just needed to stick a coax end to an RCA cable). A little grungy, but otherwise in excelent condition. Works with my RadioShack cassette deck.
Feb 23, 2018
Ultra cheap, but works just fine.
2 of 2 found this helpful These are produced very cheaply, so watch for solder bridges between the pins on the CompactFlash header. That's easy to fix by dragging a hot soldering iron tip across the pins if it does occur.
For such an ultra low price though, it's not a bad buy. Because the CompactFlash card connects straight to the IDE bus (known as True IDE mode), there's not a whole lot to go wrong with this product so long as the headers have been soldered properly.
CompactFlash cards are a very convenient means of replacing a failed IDE hard drive on an old computer that you're trying to keep going, and goes especially great with lightweight 8-bit IDE controllers such as the lo-tech CF-IDE for adding a hard drive to a vintage 8-bit system.
The adapter has power, detect, and activity LEDs for basic diagnostics, and you can use either the 4-pin floppy header, or pin 20 on the IDE bus for +5v power. It has a master/slave select jumper and a +5/+3.3v power selector jumper (the CompactFlash card can accept either, but 5v will probably be most convenient if you're using this as a HDD replacement). Note that if your motherboard/controller doesn't have pin-20 on the IDE header, or the power LED doesn't light, you will need to supply power via the 4-pin header.