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From: janm@dramba.neis.oz (Jan Mikkelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: tandy 2000-help
Message-ID: <1990Dec9.215439.13021@dramba.neis.oz>
Date: 9 Dec 90 21:54:39 GMT
References: <90337.221530DPE101@psuvm.psu.edu> <90337.231316RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: Dramba Holdings, Lindfield, Australia
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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 used to have one of these;  they ran all MS-DOS software, it was just the
IBM-PC hardware specific software that was a problem.  The machine I had ran
MS-DOS 2.11 without any problems.  At the time it was made, it was expected
that software developers would write programmes that would use the operating
system and BIOS to do all the worl, and not go directly to the hardware.
Tandy made the machine with all the same software interfaces, but with
different underlying hardware.  This was the problem.

The machine was quite fast for its day, 80186 at 8MHz.  720K, not 360K
floppy disks.  The screen was great, much better than the NEC VGA I am
looking at now.

I regret getting rid of mine, I quite liked it.  If anyone in Australia
(preferably Sydney) want to sell theirs, let me know ...

-- 
Jan Mikkelsen
janm@dramba.neis.oz.AU or janm%dramba.neis.oz@metro.ucc.su.oz.au
"She really is."