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From: garylee@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (Gary Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Hard Disk on a 1000TX (revisited)
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Date: 24 Feb 91 04:40:26 GMT
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In article <145726@pyramid.pyramid.com> andrem@pyrman2.pyramid.com (Andre Molyneux) writes:

[..]

>
>To summarize the responses:
>
>One possible problem when adding a hard drive controller to a Tandy is that
>they use interrupt request 2, while everyone else in the known universe uses
>interrupt request 5.  [..]

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It is only fair to point out that IRQ2 was only used on Tandy's 1000 series
machines, and only on the models pre-dating 1989.

And, yes... on the TX (and SX too), you can enable IRQ5 using one of the
DIP switches.

Regards,
gary


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