7 Sep
2003
7 Sep
'03
12:09 p.m.
In a message dated 9/7/2003 11:19:23 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
jrkeys(a)concentric.net writes:
Here's a complete unit that sold for $159+ on eBay,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2750719864
I got about half that about 4 years ago from a complete pcjr package deal
with some reference books.
guess I better email the winner and offer him a pcjr box that I found on the
side of the road just last year <?> and a jr monitor still in the box, heh.
7 Sep
7 Sep
12:19 p.m.
I got about half that about 4 years ago from a
complete pcjr package deal
with some reference books.
guess I better email the winner and offer him a pcjr box that I found on the
side of the road just last year <?> and a jr monitor still in the box, heh.
Hey, my unit has some extra RAM and the parallel port expansion. Wonder
what he'd pay for those? ;-)
Never mind, I actually *like* the PCjr. It's an intriguing orphan.
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12:34 p.m.
Which was the better machine, the pcjr or the tandy 1000 clone?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: PCjr goes for over $150
> I got about half that about 4 years ago from a
complete pcjr package
deal
> with some reference books.
> guess I better email the winner and offer him a pcjr box that I found on
the
> side of the road just last year <?> and a
jr monitor still in the box,
heh.
Hey, my unit has some extra RAM and the parallel port expansion. Wonder
what he'd pay for those? ;-)
Never mind, I actually *like* the PCjr. It's an intriguing orphan.
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---------------------------------- personal:
http://www.armory.com/~spectre/ --
Cameron Kaiser, Floodgap Systems Ltd * So. Calif.,
USA *
ckaiser(a)floodgap.com
-- Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. --
Kehlog
Albran -----------
2:27 p.m.
I've always liked the Tandy better. With 3-5 ISA slots and using
standard half-height floppy's, it was pretty expandable. I ran a
company on three 1000SX's networked with arcnet and outfitted with 10-30
mb hard drives until 1992. I paid $2700 each for the SX's in 1985.
They each had 384mb ram, 2 floppys, memory plus boards, digimouse/clock
boards, a 12" CGA monitor, no hard drive and one DMP-130A printer. I
paid $375 for enough 256mb chips to upgrade all hem to 640k. I later
paid $1000 each for three 10mb hard drives. I was running a DOS
accounting package that I used until I upgraded to 486's with WFWG 3.11
in 1993. I still have two of them, a 1000HD that I was given and a
1000SL that I paid a buck for at a surplus shop. All have original
Tandy CM-11 monitors, two are on my home network with 10BaseT cards and
one has a 286Express turbo board. I still have one of the original 10mb
external hard drives but lost the controller for it. As I remember,
Tandy 1000's used a non-standard IRQ for the hard drive controller. The
strange IRQ, the female serial ports, the card edge parallel port and
and the Tandy 1000 only keyboard were the strangest thing about them.
TeoZ wrote:
Which was the better machine, the pcjr or the tandy
1000 clone?
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9:28 p.m.
New subject: Tandy 1000s was Re: PCjr goes for over $150
At 05:25 PM 9/7/03 -0400, you wrote:
Which was the better machine, the pcjr or the tandy
1000 clone?
Personally I prefer the Tandy 1000. The PCjr was never released here in
Australia. We got the PC JX which is basically a PCjr with 3.5" floppy
drives and expansion modules that stack on top of the machine rather than
alongside it.
I like the Tandy 1000s because the later models were upgraded quite nicely
over the original Tandy 1000/PCjr while still retaining compatibility with
the 3 voice sound and the 16 color graphics mode.
I've got a Tandy 1000RL which has an 8Mhz 8086-2, 640KB RAM, DOS 3.3 in
ROM, 720KB 3.5" floppy, 40MB XT/IDE hard disk and standard PS/2
keyboard/mouse ports (I did like the original Tandy 1000 keyboard, but the
layout can be a pain sometimes).
The case is tiny and it only has 1 ISA slot, but there isn't much you need
to add to it. I currently have an Hitachi CDROM controller card in there
running an old external single speed CDROM (which believe it or not
actually reads CDRs), but I may swap that for a network card in future.
On the subject of Tandy 1000s, did anyone ever manage to get an Inboard/386
card working in one? I remember getting some old 286 upgrade card working
in a 1000SX, but that card didn't have onboard RAM so the speed increase
was minimal. I could never get any of the cards with onboard RAM to work.
9 Sep
9 Sep
10:41 a.m.
The Tandy is more capable, the PC Jr is more interesting due to its
compromises.
Nick
----- Original Message -----
From: "TeoZ" <teoz(a)neo.rr.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: PCjr goes for over $150
Which was the better machine, the pcjr or the tandy
1000 clone?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cameron Kaiser" <spectre(a)floodgap.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2003 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: PCjr goes for over $150
on
> I got about half that about 4 years ago from
a complete pcjr package
deal
> > with some reference books.
> > guess I better email the winner and offer him a pcjr box that I found the
> side of the road just last year <?>
and a jr monitor still in the box,
heh.
Hey, my unit has some extra RAM and the parallel port expansion. Wonder
what he'd pay for those? ;-)
Never mind, I actually *like* the PCjr. It's an intriguing orphan.
--
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Calif., USA *
ckaiser(a)floodgap.com
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