20 Jun
2005
20 Jun
'05
9:10 a.m.
I still have a Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer, several IBM XTs and
IBM ATs, some Corona luggables, and some Compaq luggables.
All available free for anyone that wants to pick them up in Northern NJ
(Ridgewood). I'm also willing to deliver to anywhere along my normal
travel routes (um, well, that is still Northern NJ, but I go to Wayne on
a fairly regular basis).
They are taking up space that I need to recover. I've lost interest in
them, but I can't bear to throw them out.
I'd really rather not ship due to the time/effort involved, but if you
can't pick up, and are too far out of my range for me to deliver, and you
really want one, let me know, maybe we can work something out.
-chris
<http://www.mythtech.net>
20 Jun
20 Jun
3:40 p.m.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, chris wrote:
I still have a Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer,
several IBM XTs and
IBM ATs, some Corona luggables, and some Compaq luggables.
To help move them along, the Tandy 1000 is an interesting machine. I'm
not sure about the straight 1000 model, but variants of the 1000 have DOS
and even DeskMate (Tandy's windowing environment, which I believe was a
tailored version of early MS windows) in ROM. Original IBM PC XT and AT
machines are getting difficult to find (especially ATs, which it seems
weren't produced in the same numbers as earlier models) and the Corona's
are significant because IBM successfully sued them for copyright
infringement for basically copying the ROM code verbatim and using it in
their clones.
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25 Jun
25 Jun
9:25 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
To help move them along, the Tandy 1000 is an
interesting machine. I'm
not sure about the straight 1000 model, but variants of the 1000 have DOS
and even DeskMate (Tandy's windowing environment, which I believe was a
tailored version of early MS windows) in ROM.
The Tandy TL/2 in particular is one of my favorite development machines -- if I
lock up the machine due to a bug on my part, I hit the reset button and I am
back in DOS in 2 seconds (that is not a typo, only 2 seconds). DOS in ROM is
cool :-)
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