8 Oct
2002
8 Oct
'02
11:06 p.m.
on 10/8/02 10:59 PM, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) at cisin(a)xenosoft.com wrote:
On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, James Rice wrote:
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
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.