Roger Merchberger wrote:
> Oh, the collectibility of MCA machines was brought up once before in this
> thread, and (to me, anyway) the Tandy MC5000 seems rather collectible, as
> one of the very few non-IBM MCA architecture machines ever sold. (I
> acutally saw one, once upon a time... they weren't too popular, tho.)
>
> Was this the first MCA "clone"?
>
> I'm pretty sure the MC5000 came out in '88, so it's ontrack topically.
Don't recall the precise release date, but they were definitely out
when I attended the Tangent (Tandy Professional Users Group)
conference in Fort Worth in 1987.
Not exactly a "clone". The MCA architecture was fully licensed and
paid for by Tandy to IBM. The 5000MC actually had a better MCA
implementation than the IBM systems at that point, as Tandy didn't
cripple the bus-mastering feature the way IBM did. Naturally the
machine died like a pig, leaving less of a ripple as it sank than
the Tandy 2000 or even the Tandy 600 portable had.
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