Needed: Tandy 2000 manuals

Chris: This is an exercise in learning more than anything. I worked for Radio Shack in the late'80's when they used the T2K for the Store Operating System and I always thought it had great graphics. After reading the Technical Reference Manual I'm beginning to appreciate how oddly designed it was. When it was introduced in 1983 or 1984, PCs already existed for 2+ years so why, oh why, did they decide to ignore the "PC compatible" trend. They must have gotten the SMC chips on special because so far I haven't found anyone else who used them. The only stuff that works is programs which are either designed specifically for it or uses only MS-DOS system calls. BIOS source, bootstrap code or anything like that that you could provide would be greatly appreciated. Rich Rich Cini Collector of classic computers Lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/ Web site: http://www.altair32.com/ /***************************************************/ -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chris M Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:06 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: RE: Needed: Tandy 2000 manuals Dude, bless your heart. But why a T2K emulator??? It's really just a botched up peecee lol. Phun to play with, but I ain't sure I'd devote that much time creating an emulator for one. To each his own though and don't let me discourage you. What would really be cool IMHO is a replacement for it's weird SMC CRT controllers and FDD data seperator. Whether concocted from discrete logic or an FPGA sort of thing. If you say you have the manuals, then I guess it's done. But if you should need anything, heck I'll scan them for you. I would say the primary source of info on the thing is USENET or of course Google groups. There's a few peeps on there that actually worked on it supposedly. There also the yahoo group, and I have to tell you there are LOADS of experts on there LOL LOL. I do have most of the original BIOS source code. A few errors. The dude I got it from was working on a primarily software "patch" for want of a better term to make it 100% peecee compatible. He never finished snifful. I'll pass on whatever you want from that stash, but I'm afraid it's not much more then that. Good luck! --- "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net> wrote: /***************************************************/ /***************************************************/ __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com