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From: gmadison@pnet02.gryphon.com (George Madison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy memory upgrades
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Date: 20 Jul 89 01:20:19 GMT
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wordproc@ucf-cs.UCF.EDU (Gang of Three) writes:
>
>Re: Specific references to Tandy in advertisements
>
>Apparently Tandy's proprietary motherboards have different bus addressing or
>some other type of difference so that other companies either have to sell
>Tandy-compatible items separately or not serve the Tandy owners at all on the
>specialized hardware (hard cards, memory boards, etc.).
>
Note that the only models that get referred to this way are the 1000 series;
they are the "quirky" members of Tandy's MS-DOS family.  The 3000/4000/5000
series machines are about as compatible as compatible gets, realizing that not
even all of IBM's offerings are 100% compatible with each other.

The big difference in the early 1000's is that they used a different interrupt
line for the hard disk than the "standard".  That particular quirk has been
FIXED in the recent machines, the SL and TL.


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