20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
6:56 p.m.
I still have a
Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer, several IBM XTs
and IBM ATs, some Corona luggables, and some Compaq luggables.
To help move them along, the Tandy 1000 is an interesting
machine. I'm not sure about the straight 1000 model, but
variants of the 1000 have DOS and even DeskMate (Tandy's
windowing environment, which I believe was a tailored version
of early MS windows) in ROM. Original IBM PC XT and AT
machines are getting difficult to find (especially ATs, which
it seems weren't produced in the same numbers as earlier
models) and the Corona's are significant because IBM
successfully sued them for copyright infringement for
basically copying the ROM code verbatim and using it in their clones.