amazing amount of information on the Tandy site! They should be proud
of themselves, considering someone was actually paid for typing this
stuff up!
>
>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>
>
>
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