How-to: Installing a Gotek in a Tandy 1000HX #septandy

#septandy #howto

Time for some Tandy love! Let's install a Gotek floppy drive emulator loaded with FlashFloppy open source firmware into a Tandy 1000HX. It's not as simple as it would seem as Tandy went with some non standard things inside of the Tandy 1000HX.

** Please excuse the typos in some of the text in this video. **

Other channels for Sep-Tandy:
Mr Lurch's Things: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMQ28v823w6p1ZnyiZDVwUg
DaveJustDave: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaW9nHuEF9G72xLZahGuO5Q
AkBKukU: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCerEIdrEW-IqwvlH8lTQUJQ
Previous Tandy 1000 EX videos:

Fix and Tour:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJRXMYmie7I

Gotek for the Tandy 1000EX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX-89z2VCVQ

RAM and CPU upgrade:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcvNCZ0l_8
More links:

Gotek Floppy Emulator on Ebay: (Should be around $19)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/3-5-inch-USB-SSD-Floppy-Drive-USB-Emulator-for-YAMAHA-GOTEK-Electronic-Organ-CO/372633011455

Gotek FlashFloppy Firmware:
https://github.com/keirf/FlashFloppy

HXC firmware link: (Paid firwmare for Gotek)
http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/#Download_HxCFirmwareForGotek

Tandy 1000HX System Disks and Technical manual: (including SETUPHX)
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/system.html

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