20 Nov
2001
20 Nov
'01
7:05 a.m.
Does anyone know anything about the Tandy 10? It was Tandy/Radio Shack's
larger microcomputer around the time the TRS-80 Model I came out. I found a
picture of one in a book, and got kind of interested in it (partially a
little home-town pride, being from Fort Worth). I can't find hardly any
information about it on the internet.
Thanks,
Owen
20 Nov
20 Nov
7:34 a.m.
The only information I have on it is that it was made for Tandy by another
unidentified company. The system was built into a desk and sold only at the
Tandy Center store in Fort Worth. It had dual 8-inch floppies and sold for
just under $10,000. There's a photo of one in the August 1986 issue of 80
Micro.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editorial Services
603-893-2379
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Robertson" <univac2(a)earthlink.net>
To: "Classic Computer Mailing List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Tandy 10 Info Wanted
Does anyone know anything about the Tandy 10? It was
Tandy/Radio Shack's
larger microcomputer around the time the TRS-80 Model I came out. I found
a
picture of one in a book, and got kind of interested
in it (partially a
little home-town pride, being from Fort Worth). I can't find hardly any
information about it on the internet.
Thanks,
Owen
9:05 a.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Michael Nadeau wrote:
The only information I have on it is that it was made
for Tandy by another
unidentified company. The system was built into a desk and sold only at the
Tandy Center store in Fort Worth. It had dual 8-inch floppies and sold for
just under $10,000. There's a photo of one in the August 1986 issue of 80
Micro.
Speaking of 80 Micro...has anyone scanned the issues from 1980-1983? I
have a collection covering all of 1980-1982, and about 1/4th of '83
(starting with issue #1). I haven't yet scanned anything since I am unsure
about how to do so w/o damaging them.
-Toth
9:26 a.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
If I were to do it, I'd sacrifice a less-than-pristine copy for the
cause--not an option if you don't have a duplicate, of course. Scanning some
of those bigger issues without taking them apart is near impossible (I've
tried), and there's no way to reassemble the magazine.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editorial Services
603-893-2379
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tothwolf" <tothwolf(a)concentric.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 3:05 PM
Subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Michael Nadeau wrote:
> The only information I have on it is that it was made for Tandy by
another
> unidentified company. The system was built into a
desk and sold only at
the
> Tandy Center store in Fort Worth. It had dual
8-inch floppies and sold
for
> just under $10,000. There's a photo of one in
the August 1986 issue of
80
Micro.
Speaking of 80 Micro...has anyone scanned the issues from 1980-1983? I
have a collection covering all of 1980-1982, and about 1/4th of '83
(starting with issue #1). I haven't yet scanned anything since I am unsure
about how to do so w/o damaging them.
-Toth
10:11 p.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Michael Nadeau wrote:
From: "Tothwolf"
<tothwolf(a)concentric.net>
I don't have any duplicates, so taking them apart in such a way that ruins
them isn't an option for me. I guess I need to find an expert on book
binding and see what they can come up with. Maybe there is a special
scanner out there that was made for doing this kind of thing?
-Toth
Speaking of 80 Micro...has anyone scanned the
issues from 1980-1983? I
have a collection covering all of 1980-1982, and about 1/4th of '83
(starting with issue #1). I haven't yet scanned anything since I am unsure
about how to do so w/o damaging them.
If I were to do it, I'd sacrifice a less-than-pristine copy for the
cause--not an option if you don't have a duplicate, of course. Scanning some
of those bigger issues without taking them apart is near impossible (I've
tried), and there's no way to reassemble the magazine. 
21 Nov
21 Nov
7:16 p.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
Aren't the copy machines you find in the libraries
designed to copy pages in a book without breaking it's
spine/back. Just makes copies at the library, then
scan the copies.
Tothwolf wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Michael Nadeau wrote:
From: "Tothwolf"
<tothwolf(a)concentric.net>
I don't have any duplicates, so taking them apart in such a way that ruins
them isn't an option for me. I guess I need to find an expert on book
binding and see what they can come up with. Maybe there is a special
scanner out there that was made for doing this kind of thing?
-Toth Speaking of 80 Micro...has anyone scanned the
issues from 1980-1983? I
have a collection covering all of 1980-1982, and about 1/4th of '83
(starting with issue #1). I haven't yet scanned anything since I am unsure
about how to do so w/o damaging them.
If I were to do it, I'd sacrifice a less-than-pristine copy for the
cause--not an option if you don't have a duplicate, of course. Scanning some
of those bigger issues without taking them apart is near impossible (I've
tried), and there's no way to reassemble the magazine.
22 Nov
22 Nov
12:47 a.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Ian Koller wrote:
Tothwolf wrote:
The copy machines the local library here has are standard units. They also
charge 10-15 cents a page, and are very much in need of an overhaul and
cleaning (very poor copies). I have a very old 3 pass HP scanner that may
be ok for scanning this stuff, but I'm not sure yet. The spines of these
old magazines are much thinner and much more brittle then those found in
most paperback books.
-Toth
I don't have any duplicates, so taking them
apart in such a way that ruins
them isn't an option for me. I guess I need to find an expert on book
binding and see what they can come up with. Maybe there is a special
scanner out there that was made for doing this kind of thing?
Aren't the copy machines you find in the libraries designed to copy
pages in a book without breaking it's spine/back. Just makes copies at
the library, then scan the copies. 
2:04 a.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
Hi,
The copy machines the local library here has are standard units. They also
charge 10-15 cents a page, and are very much in need of an overhaul and
cleaning (very poor copies). I have a very old 3 pass HP scanner that may
be ok for scanning this stuff, but I'm not sure yet. The spines of these
old magazines are much thinner and much more brittle then those found in
most paperback books.
I've found that hanging one edge of the magazine over the side of the
scanner works - you have to put the scanner on something thin and tall, so
the whole side of the magazine droops down - the only problem then is the
width of the plastic edges of the scanner surface/sides of scanner
-- Matt
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I don't have any duplicates, so taking them apart
in such a way that ruins
them isn't an option for me. I guess I need to find an expert on book
binding and see what they can come up with. Maybe there is a special
scanner out there that was made for doing this kind of thing?
Aren't the copy machines you find in the libraries designed to copy
pages in a book without breaking it's spine/back. Just makes copies at
the library, then scan the copies.
1:30 p.m.
New subject: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
I had a problem doing what you describe with old issues of BYTE. The trim
sizes on a lot of the old magazines left little margin, and text was almost
always cut off. General rule of thumb: The thicker the magazine, the more
likely the publisher trimmed the width and height. Some BYTEs and 80 Micros
weighed nearly 2 pounds, and the publishers were desperate to get that down
to save shipping and paper costs.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editorial Services
603-893-2379
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt London" <classiccmp(a)knm.yi.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: Preserving old literature (was: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted)
Hi,
> > > I don't have any duplicates, so taking them apart in such a way that
ruins
> > > them isn't an option for me. I
guess I need to find an expert on
book
> > > binding and see what they can come up
with. Maybe there is a special
> > > scanner out there that was made for doing this kind of thing?
> >
> > Aren't the copy machines you find in the libraries designed to copy
> > pages in a book without breaking it's spine/back. Just makes copies at
> > the library, then scan the copies.
>
> The copy machines the local library here has are standard units. They
also
> charge 10-15 cents a page, and are very much in
need of an overhaul and
> cleaning (very poor copies). I have a very old 3 pass HP scanner that
may
be ok for
scanning this stuff, but I'm not sure yet. The spines of these
old magazines are much thinner and much more brittle then those found in
most paperback books.
I've found that hanging one edge of the magazine over the side of the
scanner works - you have to put the scanner on something thin and tall, so
the whole side of the magazine droops down - the only problem then is the
width of the plastic edges of the scanner surface/sides of scanner
-- Matt
---
PGP Key fingerprint = 00BF 19FE D5F5 8EAD 2FD5 D102 260E 8BA7 EEE4 8D7F
PGP Key http://knm.yi.org/matt-pgp.html
20 Nov
20 Nov
12:12 p.m.
I remember those! I used to work for a Radio Shack Computer Center and
each night we would enter all of the sales slips into the system and then it
would dial into Fort Worth and transmit that days sales and inventory
control, Radio shack did a superb job of tracking store sales figures and
automatically restocking, all this and they used their own hardware which
was also a strange thing to see as most companies were selling computer
equipment, yet using other company equipment for day to day operations.
Ahhh the good old TRS80 days..... damn I'm feeling nostalgic, anybody have
a Model III or IV to sell/trade?
Curt
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Nadeau" <menadeau(a)mediaone.net>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: Tandy 10 Info Wanted
The only information I have on it is that it was made
for Tandy by another
unidentified company. The system was built into a desk and sold only at
the
Tandy Center store in Fort Worth. It had dual 8-inch
floppies and sold for
just under $10,000. There's a photo of one in the August 1986 issue of 80
Micro.
--Mike
Michael Nadeau
Editorial Services
603-893-2379
----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen Robertson" <univac2(a)earthlink.net>
To: "Classic Computer Mailing List" <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 1:05 PM
Subject: Tandy 10 Info Wanted
> Does anyone know anything about the Tandy 10? It was Tandy/Radio Shack's
> larger microcomputer around the time the TRS-80 Model I came out. I
found
a
picture of one in a book, and got kind of
interested in it (partially a
little home-town pride, being from Fort Worth). I can't find hardly any
information about it on the internet.
Thanks,
Owen
8:46 a.m.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Owen Robertson wrote:
Does anyone know anything about the Tandy 10? It was
Tandy/Radio
Shack's larger microcomputer around the time the TRS-80 Model I came
out. I found a picture of one in a book, and got kind of interested in
it (partially a little home-town pride, being from Fort Worth). I
can't find hardly any information about it on the internet.
I vaguely recall a discussion in the early days of ClassicCmp (perhaps the
first year) about the Tandy 10.
Try searching the archives at http://www.classiccmp.org/ to see if
anything turns up.
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