Kip Crosby wrote: Yep. He was talking out his ass. Windows for the Tandy 2000 never worked, though a product was delivered (by the "vendor") and discontinued by the retailer before it finished ruining their reputation. (They managed that on their own several years later due to buying into the IBM Compatible concept). The Tandy execs were _really_ stupid for a while. Don't ask me about "Ovation" -- the classicest vaporware that ever existed. -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_

Paul & Sheri wrote: The Tandy 2000 was faster then the AT that came out a year later (8 Mhz 80186 vs 6 Mhz 80286). Actually, Windoze for the Tandy 2000 didn't show up until after the AT came out. Nor did a bunch of other bits of vaporware that Tandy took the word that the vendors could deliver. It can be Hell sliding down the leading (bleeding) edge of technology, as it can be any other time you slide down the razor blade of life. Tandy took risks in those days, some won and some lost. Ask your local IBM rep about the Transportable and the Junior -- admittedly IBM had bigger feet when they shot themselves in them, an easier target. Tandy made some really bad judgement calls in picking vendors for a couple of years -- Microsoft was definitely one such. (MicroWare was much more reliable, produced operating systems that crash much less often -- if ever, since I've never seen it happen unless I forced it to check debugging tools superior to anything available for NT except at _large_ extra cost, since they aren't from MS.). Yes, Billy-boy did refer to it as the first computer built to run Windows. Then he changed the rules about what Windows would run on. Have you tried lately to boot Windows '95 on a 486/33 with 8-Meg RAM? The "System Requirements" include it. Don't plan on much else for that day, or maybe that week.. -- Ward Griffiths They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else. Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_