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From: wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Radio Shack personnel
Message-ID: <1129@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU>
Date: 27 Jun 89 12:47:31 GMT
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Radio Shack personnel may or may not be fairly knowledgeable about their
products, but in *my* area, most of them seem to be ignorant of the Model 4
line and anything lower.  Many don't seem to realize that Tandy really *did*
put out a Tandy 2000, as well.

I wonder if there's a single Radio Shack/Tandy salesperson out there who
realizes that Tandy DOES make a hard drive for the Model 4?

Even if not, it's not really surprising; the point is made only in fine print
in the catalog.  I think it's page 33 of the 1989 Tandy computer catalog (the
page with information on the Network 4 system).  Way down there in the
fine-print specifications (where they talk about required hardware and so forth)
is the point:  

"Network 4 requires a hard drive (catalog number 26-1041 [I think that's the
number]) with hard drive controller xx-xxxx."

Flipping to the hard drive section, you find a 20MB hard drive 26-1041, a nice
external drive, white case and all, with information about a Model 1000
controller directly below it.  Where the Model 4 controller is in the catalog,
I don't know.  Why would a Model 4 need a controller?  Would the drive not
work plugged in to the I/O bus on the 4?

It's interesting that the means of discovering that there *is* a hard drive
available for the 4 is so convoluted.  It's not mentioned in the Model 4
page; seems they would push the hard drive with the computer.

-- Marcus