on 10/8/02 10:59 PM, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) at cisin_at_xenosoft.com wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, James Rice wrote:
>
>> By the strict 10 year rule, Tandy 1000's are on-topic. I bought the
>> My 2000 is even older.
>
> Both the 2000 and 1000 had interesting deviations from the PC "standard".
> The 2000 was a "720K" 5.25" disk format.
>
> IIRC,
> The 1000 did not use DMA for disk I/O, somewhat like the PCJr.
The 1000 was designed by Tandy as a PCjr clone, but when the PCjr failed
commercially, Tandy marketed it as a PC clone. So the 1000 has several
similarities to the PCjr.
--
Owen Robertson
Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 23:06:00 BST