Rumor has it that Sridhar the POWERful may have mentioned these words:
Anyone know where I might be able to find a Tandy 4000? It's the
Microchannel Tandy.
Are you sure? I worked for Tandy as a salesman during that timeframe, and
the *only* Tandy that I know of that was ever MicroChannel was the Tandy
5000MC (gee, guess what the MC stood for... ;-)
And guess what the 5000 stood for: the cost... IIRC they were $4999 each!
(I cannot confirm... the catalogs that I have that listed those are packed
away, so others will have to jump in here...)
Methinks a goodly chunk of that was IBM's licensing of the buss...
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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