14 Oct
1998
14 Oct
'98
1:49 p.m.
Are these PC clones? I have seen a tandy (1000, I think) that had a
microphone port. Why was this? I have also seen a tandy which was
sort of like a C64 except it had a 3.5" disk drive. I'm _certain_ it
was a tandy.
We've been throwing out all our Tandy stuff at school. I've seen TLs,
TXs, SXs and even an HL. But I don't remember an RL. Will the others
work?
Eileen
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>Greetings
>
>I was given a Tandy 1000RL, I need a old Tandy keyboard as nothing
else
will
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14 Oct
14 Oct
4:40 p.m.
On 14 Oct 98 at 18:49, Max Eskin wrote:
Are these PC clones? I have seen a tandy (1000, I
think) that had a
microphone port. Why was this? I have also seen a tandy which was
sort of like a C64 except it had a 3.5" disk drive. I'm _certain_ it
was a tandy.
They did run Dos and supposedly Gates wrote the OS for them. They were
very similiar to the PC jr. and had a better resolution on the Tandy monitors
than CGA. Can't remember the mike port but I seem to remember they did have
a superior sound chip. TRS had a proprietory GUI (of sorts) called Deskmate
that came with the sytem. The C64 type was likely a CoCo of which Murch is
the resident expert. I believe he moderates the CoCo m-l .The CoCo 2 and 3 have
an OS available called OS-9 which is IIRC quite impressive.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
10:53 p.m.
Lawrence Walker wrote:
On 14 Oct 98 at 18:49, Max Eskin wrote:
The HX and EX were the 1000 versions that were low profile and were DOS, not OS/9
machines. The HX had the 3.5" 720k floppy drive(s) in front and the EX had a
5.25"
360k drive on the right side. Both used a proprietary card slot known as a Plus
expansion and the cards (serial, hard disk and memory) are getting very hard to
come by anymore.
Tandy has all the specs on the 1000 models on text files at
http://support.tandy.com/
Jason is correct on the keyboard plugs too. Later models went to a common keyboard,
older ones used a Tandy specific with a Tandy 1000 sticker on the back. The 2000
used a similar looking keyboard but wired differently and had a 2000 label on the
back of it.
THROWING the 1000's away?? You ought to b4e ashamed. <g>
Are these PC clones? I have seen a tandy (1000, I
think) that had a
microphone port. Why was this? I have also seen a tandy which was
sort of like a C64 except it had a 3.5" disk drive. I'm _certain_ it
was a tandy.
They did run Dos and supposedly Gates wrote the OS for them. They were
very similiar to the PC jr. and had a better resolution on the Tandy monitors
than CGA. Can't remember the mike port but I seem to remember they did have
a superior sound chip. TRS had a proprietory GUI (of sorts) called Deskmate
that came with the sytem. The C64 type was likely a CoCo of which Murch is
the resident expert. I believe he moderates the CoCo m-l .The CoCo 2 and 3 have
an OS available called OS-9 which is IIRC quite impressive.
15 Oct
15 Oct
4:45 p.m.
On 15 Oct 98 at 5:53, Russ Blakeman wrote:
Lawrence Walker wrote:
> On 14 Oct 98 at 18:49, Max Eskin wrote:
>
> > Are these PC clones? I have seen a tandy (1000, I think) that had a
> > microphone port. Why was this? I have also seen a tandy which was
> > sort of like a C64 except it had a 3.5" disk drive. I'm _certain_ it
> > was a tandy.
> >
> They did run Dos and supposedly Gates wrote the OS for them. They were
On checking the docs I find it was the Tandy 2000 that used the special MSDOS
2.11
16 Oct
16 Oct
12:26 a.m.
Lawrence Walker wrote:
9) What operating systems could the Model 2000
run?
Tandy relseased only one version of MS-DOS for the machine, and that was a
special version of MS-DOS 2.11, which went through 3 revisions during the
machines lifetime, the last one being 2.11.03.
Actually, it started out with MS-DOS 2.0, switched to 2.11 about 6-8 months
later when Microsoft finally stabilized MS-DOS 2. Yes, there were several
patches to 2.11. (As there had been to 2.0). The third position in the
version name is a change of patchlevel, not release or major revision. A
version numbering system I still use for anything I write, though what I
write is mostly shell scripts. With comment lines. Source tracked.
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