28 Mar
2006
28 Mar
'06
4:56 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 3/23/2006 at 7:43 AM Cini, Richard wrote:
not sure what OEM means in this context, but it was a
customized version that only ran on the 2000. Same for
all the pseudo-compatibles...no need for a list I'm
sure.
Not 3 days ago began imaging a stack of disks for
this thing. The developer from the Chicago area was
working on a mod that would make it 100% compatible or
nearly so. Somehow he got hold of the sources for the
rom bios (my understanding anyway). 2 of the 4 disks
exhibited a bad sector. Just thought someone would
like to know...
I don't know where in the overall timeline
this is
but wasn't the Tandy
2000 based on the 80186? It was introduced in
11/83
and ran an OEM version
of
>DOS 2.11. Yes, and the 80186 was a marketing disaster for any
company that tried to
turn it into a PC. The integrated peripherals,
while generally better than
same facilities present on the PC aren't the least
compatible. The wrong
thing in a world dominated by hardware-manipulating
applications, such as
games, graphics utilities, backup programs, etc. I
still have the Durango
80186 IO.SYS source for MS-DOS 1.25, as well as the
OEM docs for 2.0.
All of this was a shame, because an 80186-based PC
offers a pretty
substantial bang for the buck; the few NEC V40-based
systems faced pretty
much the same demise also. Yet, the 80186/88 found
plenty of places
embedded in things like modems where it was very
successful.
Believe it or not there was 1 manufacturer on
California who offered a fully compatible (presumably)
80186 based motherboard/pc. IIRC their name was
Computer Products United. I have the ad somewhere.
Anyone got one?
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