21 Jun
2012
21 Jun
'12
6:48 p.m.
On 21 Jun 2012 at 18:39, Tony Duell wrote:
Mostly because of Tandy's terrible *mechanical* engineering. In the
16, the enclosure is flimsy, getting access to the cards will rip
your fingers to shreds, there are no guides on the card cage and
cooling design seems like an afterthought. Perhaps my expectations
for a $5000 (minimum system configuration) computer were unrealistic.
And don't get me started on the quality of Tandon engineering (the
Model 16 uses two TM848 drives).
--Chuck
I assume there ws a service amnaul available, since
there seems to
have been one for every otehr Radio Shack product (even pocket radios,
cassette recorders, etc). There was most likely a technical refernce
manaul too, since there was oen for the other computers. Do these
still exist anywhere?
There's some on the web, certainly. Enough to work on the system.
TRS80 was not
well respected. I gravely offended an acquaintance by
And given my expeiriences I've never understood why not. My M1/3/4 and
CoCo machiens ahve been pretty reliable.