>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.
>
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>Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
In stock form the 1000 did not use DMA, but any of the Tandy, and many of
the third party memory expansion cards added DMA to the system.
Even a dual 360k drive 384k RAM T1000 was a pretty decent machine IMHO.
At least it came standard with a printer port.
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Received on Sun Oct 13 2002 - 19:40:44 BST