14 Feb
2013
14 Feb
'13
2:36 p.m.
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 1:16 PM PST Jason McBrien wrote:
1000s didn't use DMA. O/w compatible afaik. I think there was a card that addedc the
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Subject: Re: Who were the worst of the worst?
Some of the Tandy 1000 series were stinkers. Weird proprietary ISA
connectors, weird video adapters, weird versions of DOS that were
incompatible with most utility programs. Not a clone, but no list would be complete without the
PC Jr. IMHO. What an
absolutely terrible machine. It was actually *less* PC-5150 compatible than
early clones.
Um yeah. The Peanut was an anemic T1000. It's a fun unit if you can live or partially
deal with it's deficiencies. I'm just glad I.wasn't suckered into buying one
back then. The Sanyos, Peanut, and T1000 had similar video modes. Must have been a
creeping hardware virus anomole.
17 Feb
17 Feb
11:21 a.m.
On 2/14/2013 4:36 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
Um yeah. The Peanut was an anemic T1000. It's a fun unit if you can live or
partially deal with it's deficiencies. I'm just glad I.wasn't suckered into
buying one back then. The Sanyos, Peanut, and T1000 had similar video modes. Must have
been a creeping hardware virus anomole.
You have that backwards. The Tandy 1000 line was designed as a clone of
the PCjr. And in many ways, they did not make the same mistakes that
IBM made. For example, the location of the expandable video buffer ...
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