PCW's 25 worst tech products of all time

--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote: The Tandy 2000 was a neat machine in it's own right, but there were 40+ tech center mod bulletins. Could involved soldering jumpers, cutting traces, etc. Supposedly once Xenix got ported, all these little quirks started popping up. There's probably alot more info then I can give on the comp.sys.tandy newsgroup. Also google "Jeff Hellige" for the Tandy 2000 FAQ file. There's also the weird crt controller by SMC (and floppy data seperator). Where are you supposed to find replacements for those??? The Peanut was an interesting machine in it's own right. It certainly had it's deficiencies, the floppy drive, weird upgrade path. But early IBMers in general had problem drives and whatnot. Yet if you look under the hood there was some interesting stuph going on. Like how they used a gate array to make the video memory appear as if it was in the b800:0000 area, when in reality it was physically located down low in memory (anyone know if the Tandy 1000 did the same thing?). As far as compatibility, as long as you could plug a 2nd floppy drive in (aftermarket or home brewed) you were mostly compatible as I understand. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com