Lawrence Walker wrote:
> On 14 Oct 98 at 18:49, Max Eskin wrote:
>
> > Are these PC clones? I have seen a tandy (1000, I think) that had a
> > microphone port. Why was this? I have also seen a tandy which was
> > sort of like a C64 except it had a 3.5" disk drive. I'm _certain_ it
> > was a tandy.
> >
> They did run Dos and supposedly Gates wrote the OS for them. They were
> very similiar to the PC jr. and had a better resolution on the Tandy monitors
> than CGA. Can't remember the mike port but I seem to remember they did have
> a superior sound chip. TRS had a proprietory GUI (of sorts) called Deskmate
> that came with the sytem. The C64 type was likely a CoCo of which Murch is
> the resident expert. I believe he moderates the CoCo m-l .The CoCo 2 and 3 have
> an OS available called OS-9 which is IIRC quite impressive.
The HX and EX were the 1000 versions that were low profile and were DOS, not OS/9
machines. The HX had the 3.5" 720k floppy drive(s) in front and the EX had a 5.25"
360k drive on the right side. Both used a proprietary card slot known as a Plus
expansion and the cards (serial, hard disk and memory) are getting very hard to
come by anymore.
Tandy has all the specs on the 1000 models on text files at
http://support.tandy.com/
Jason is correct on the keyboard plugs too. Later models went to a common keyboard,
older ones used a Tandy specific with a Tandy 1000 sticker on the back. The 2000
used a similar looking keyboard but wired differently and had a 2000 label on the
back of it.
THROWING the 1000's away?? You ought to b4e ashamed. <g>
Received on Thu Oct 15 1998 - 05:53:44 BST