Once upon a midnight dreary, Jason Willgruber had spoken clearly:
>Just how many of the 600's were made/possibly are still in working order?
>Just how rare are they, and how much would one be worth? I had people
>trying to sell me non-working ones for $50 and over (I didn't buy them
>because I have a working one).
# built: I've heard rumors ranging from 20,000 to 75,000 machines built...
where they ended up, who knows. Is this right??? You know what they say
about rumors... ;-)
>Also on the topic of the 600, Does anyone have a modem cable and a printer
>cable for one (or a BASIC chip)?
The printer cable is one of the only things that the 600 has in common with
it's predecessors (the 100/102/200)... it's a 26-pin IDC header running
thru 26-conductor ribbon cable running to a 36-pin Centronics (or
whateveryacallem) end. You can still get 'em at Radio smack ;-, I think...
prolly have to special-order 'em, tho.
Otherwise, contact my good friend Rick Hanson - he runs Club 100 and I'm
pretty sure that he has some in stock. (That's where I got my 600 from...
reminds me, I gotta plug it in tonite).
(shameless plug: Rick makes his *living* at keeping the Model T's alive, so
please support him... he's a really cool dude!)
His e-mail is thedock_at_value.net, and tell him "Merch" sent ya.
Otherwise, browse to:
http://www.the-dock.com/club100.html
(checking... Yupper, got it right.)
>One last question...
>Is there any way to run non-ROM programs on the 600?
Uh, whaddya mean? Provided you have more than 32K in your 600 (which I
recommend - 128K is really necessary (in my experience) to make the machine
usable) you can dump Basic to RAM and run it there, if you don't mind 32K
of ram getting swallowed. Other proggies may be possible, but I've not run
anything other than Basic in this manner.
Notes:
Larry Kollar (address unknown - search the web for his name) is/was very
active with the Tandy 600 - I contacted him when I got mine.
Active in a day or so, you will find a Tandy600 ftp site at:
ftp.30below.com/Tandy600
Check there for a day or to... if it's not up by friday, send me a
(hopefully friendly) reminder.
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Wed Nov 04 1998 - 18:29:56 GMT