4 Nov
1998
4 Nov
'98
8:47 a.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Oh, the collectibility of MCA machines was brought up
once before in this
thread, and (to me, anyway) the Tandy MC5000 seems rather collectible, as
one of the very few non-IBM MCA architecture machines ever sold. (I
acutally saw one, once upon a time... they weren't too popular, tho.)
Was this the first MCA "clone"?
I'm pretty sure the MC5000 came out in '88, so it's ontrack topically.
Don't recall the precise release date, but they were definitely out
when I attended the Tangent (Tandy Professional Users Group)
conference in Fort Worth in 1987.
Not exactly a "clone". The MCA architecture was fully licensed and
paid for by Tandy to IBM. The 5000MC actually had a better MCA
implementation than the IBM systems at that point, as Tandy didn't
cripple the bus-mastering feature the way IBM did. Naturally the
machine died like a pig, leaving less of a ripple as it sank than
the Tandy 2000 or even the Tandy 600 portable had.
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