Tandy Keyboard - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

15 Oct 1998

amazing amount of information on the Tandy site! They should be proud
of themselves, considering someone was actually paid for typing this
stuff up!
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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
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 > > was a tandy.
> >
>  They did run Dos and supposedly Gates wrote the OS for them. They  were
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 > very similiar to the PC jr. and had a better
resolution on the Tandy  monitors
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 > than CGA. Can't remember the mike port but I
seem to remember they  did have
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 > a superior sound chip. TRS had a proprietory GUI
(of sorts) called  Deskmate
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 > that came with the sytem. The C64 type was likely
a CoCo of which  Murch is
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 > the resident expert. I believe he moderates the
CoCo m-l .The CoCo 2  and 3 have
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   an OS
available called OS-9 which is IIRC quite impressive. 
The HX and EX were the 1000 versions that were low profile and were  DOS, not OS/9
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 machines. The HX had the 3.5" 720k floppy drive(s)
in front and the EX  had a 5.25"
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 360k drive on the right side. Both used a proprietary
card slot known  as a Plus
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 expansion and the cards (serial, hard disk and memory)
are getting very  hard to
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 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,
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 older ones used a Tandy specific with a Tandy 1000
sticker on the back.  The 2000
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 used a similar looking keyboard but wired differently
and had a 2000  label on the
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 back of it.
THROWING the 1000's away?? You ought to b4e ashamed. <g>

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