17 Feb
2013
17 Feb
'13
12:36 p.m.
On 2/17/2013 2:06 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
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On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 11:21 AM PST Michael B. Brutman wrote:
The Peanut, by definition, could not be an anemic Tandy 1000 - the Tandy
1000 did not exist!
And yes, there is an ordering dependency in what you wrote.
On 2/14/2013 4:36 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
I didn't say the Tandy came before the Peanut. The P* was an anemic T1K, the T* was
a P* on steroids, same thing.
Now what might be an interesting project would be to drop the guts of a Jr into a clone
case and add functionality that way, instead of endlessly adding side carts. You'd
need to piggyback off the 8088 socket in order to provide for ISA slots and other assorted
madness. It's truly a pity no one offered such a solution when it would have mattered
most...
Um yeah. The Peanut was an anemic T1000. It's a fun unit if you can live or
partially deal with it's deficiencies. I'm just glad I.wasn't suckered into
buying one back then. The Sanyos, Peanut, and T1000 had similar video modes. Must have
been a creeping hardware virus anomole.
You have that backwards. The Tandy 1000 line was designed as a clone of
the PCjr. And in many ways, they did not make the same mistakes that
IBM made. For example, the location of the expandable video buffer ...