14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
3:20 p.m.
The Tandy 1000 series WAS a clone of the PC Jr, why would you expect 100%
5150 compatibility? Tandy didn't have DMA unless you got the special RAM
upgrades, and they made sure to have all the ports different to sell you
Tandy cables (special joystick ports, serial ports of the wrong gender,
special printer ports, even the floppy drives were different then anything
on a clone because the power was in the data cable). The very last 1000's
ended up with VGA I think. Nobody with a clue would have purchased these
new.
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Some of the Tandy 1000 series were stinkers. Weird proprietary ISA
connectors, weird video adapters, weird versions of DOS that were
incompatible with most utility programs.
Not a clone, but no list would be complete without the PC Jr. IMHO. What
an
absolutely terrible machine. It was actually *less* PC-5150 compatible
than
early clones.