Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ttak From: ttak@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Tim Takahashi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: Advanced Systems Message-ID: <13158@ur-cc.UUCP> Date: 3 Apr 91 15:57:25 GMT References: <1991Mar29.162359.2428@pdn.paradyne.com> <1991Apr2.171206.12184@bilver.uucp> Organization: University of Rochester, Rochester NY Lines: 25 In article <1991Apr2.171206.12184@bilver.uucp> bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes: >> Why is it that 90% of the people who 'sound off' don't know what they are >>talking about. > >> The reason Tandy got a bad name in computers is because they built >>expensive but powerful machines. Lets face it, Tandy had the Model 16 >>long before I'd heard of the 80286. > >When I went to get this, I found the "12 page" manual for TRSDOS 2.0 with a >June 7, 1978 date on the cover. My disks had hand written labels. The >first printed TRSDOS lables were shipped with TRSDOS 2.1 if memory serves. People seem to forget things awfully fast as the former owner of a Model I TRS-80, and Model II TRS-80, Tandy 102, an LNW-80 mkII, an RCA VIP and currently holding on the a Rockwell AIM-65. I think I've seen alot of "obsolete" systems.... 1978 Was the infancy of small computers and Tandy was at the lead (remeber Apple didn't offer floating point until late 1979). A Model I is a slug compared to a SPARC, but they were useful machines for their day (and we should remember them as such). The days of handwritten disk labels has come and gone..... Tim Takahashi P.S. Remeber Tandy gave us mass market UNIX.