4 Nov
1998
4 Nov
'98
1:20 p.m.
On Wednesday, November 04, 1998 5:20 PM, Jason Willgruber
[SMTP:roblwill@usaor.net] wrote:
No idea but you sure don't run into them very often.
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.
Just how many of the 600's were made/possibly are still in working order?
Just how rare are they, and how much would one be worth? I had people
trying to sell me non-working ones for $50 and over (I didn't buy them
because I have a working one).
Also on the topic of the 600, Does anyone have a modem cable and a
printer
cable for one (or a BASIC chip)?
I have all of the above but I wouldn't be interested in parting with any of
it.
One last question...
Is there any way to run non-ROM programs on the 600?
You could run programs from diskette. The machine has an 8086 chip in it I
believe and I think there was an assembler available for it but I've never
seen one.
I just pulled mine from storage over the weekend and discovered that I had
left the memory switch on several years ago when I put it up. Now it won't
boot even under AC. I guess I need to replace the backup battery - anyone
have any info on this?
ThAnX,
-Jason
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