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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy 16 and 12
Message-ID: <942@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 90 03:45:05 GMT
References: <5722@plains.NoDak.edu>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
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Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <5722@plains.NoDak.edu> blee@plains.NoDak.edu (blee) writes:
>
>I may be buying a 16b and 12 soon, and I would like to know of software
>that is available (via ftp) and what is a reasonably up to date release
>of xenix to run?

Last release date of Xenix 3.2 was just about 2 years ago.  Updates to the
latest version were $99.  If you don't have the originals it will be more.
The /dev/sys - which you will nedd to compile any software had the latest
upgrade released about 18 months ago - that was a $250 upgrade to a $750
package.  You need to find someone who has them and is selling them, in my
opinion, because it doesn't make sense to put expensive software on an
outdated machine.

>
>What are these systems worth? I believe the 12 has a 15 meg drive
>attached. and the 16 has about 4 8inchers on it, but I am not sure about
>a hard drive...( can the 12's drive be put on the 16? )

New ones, Tandy 6000s, in boxes, were being sold locally earlier this year
at $250, including the Xenix 3.2 core package and Deskmate.  Used units
have been traded locally for $150.

I am looking at a memory board from one of mine as I type.  It has a foil
copyright date on the circuit board of 1981.   If you can get them cheap go
for it.


I just moved my local usenet node from a 6000 to a '386 machine. Difference
is tremendous - I have owned a 16, 16B and a pair of 6000's since my first
acquisition of a 16 in 1983.  I am keeping the remaing unit only to do file
xfers for a few local people that are still clinging to theirs.  The local
service tech's don't even know what you are talking about 1/2 the time, and
I even had a tech call me to help out on a question he had.

I would advise not trying to do any serious work on them, as the
reliability is going down as time passes.
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