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From: garee@evax.arl.utexas.edu (Scott Garee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: tandy 2000-help
Message-ID: <1990Dec4.192436.16623@evax.arl.utexas.edu>
Date: 4 Dec 90 19:24:36 GMT
References: <90337.221530DPE101@psuvm.psu.edu> <90337.231316RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Computer Science Engineering Univ. of Texas at Arlington
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In article <90337.231316RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>Tandy 2000 was produced (misproduced) by Tandy about 5-6 years ago. A real
>Orphan. It has an 80186 microprocessor, not sure about speed. An ALMOST-MSDOS
>machine. No MSDOS software will run on it out of box; Tandy got a few
>companies to wrtie 2000-versions of their software; Lotus was one, I
>forget others. It did great graphics. A dead-end machine.
>I always thought that the Tandy 1200 was the best machine they ever built--
>a real truck. It was manufactired by Tandon. Tandy dropped it 'cuz
>it wasn't precularly Tandy -- you could drop any card in it. Tandq
>then opted for its 1000-series machines, which, if you bought one, pretty
>closelty tied you to Tandy for upgrades, etc. They wouldn't take
>full-size cards. Whay am I thinking about buying a Tandy?
>Bob M.

Some inaccuracies...
MS-DOS software WILL run as is on the 2000 if it is text only and does
not write direct to screen.  The 2000 was a 16 bit MS-DOS machine, with
16 bit slots before there was an AT, or for that matter, before there
were PC clones on the market, COMPAQ was the only one at that time.
I have used MACE utilities, Norton utilities, Professional Write, and
others on a 2000.
By the way, we have about 50 million (well maybe not that many) PC's,
Tandy, Zenith, Clones, etc... in use in our dept. at UTA.  Not ONE of
these has a card that is longer than about 7", let alone 10"!
RS is currently selling off the 2000's that were used for the last 5
years for the store computers.  A sidenote: we upgraded last year to
16MHz 4000's with 4 Meg, SCSI HD's & tape, and from 2 - 8 terminals for
the new POS's, I'm sure you've seen them.  Cost: $34 million +!!!
Back to the 2000's: the systems have 512k, a 10 Meg HD, 2 720k 5 1/4"
floppys, 1200B modems, and color graphics and monitors.  
They are being sold for about $300, not a bad price,
even if you use it as a dumb terminal!  But just don't buy one as you're
main machine, we'd be ashamed of ourselves for letting you.

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