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From: brk102@leah.albany.edu (Brian King)
Subject: Re: DOS 5.0 installation disaster
Message-ID: <1991Jun24.152209.14102@sarah.albany.edu>
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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 15:22:09 GMT
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In article <91174.181153CBTCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <CBTCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>I tried to post this earlier, and I don't think it made it.  Pardon if this is
>a repeat....
>My rommate just installed DOS5 on his Tandy 2500XL. The installation
>bombed.  He said he did everything as laid out in the manual, & I
>believe him.  Anyway, as I said, it's on a Tandy 2500 XL.  This is the  screen
>appearance on booting:
>*********************************************(My stars...)
>MS-DOS Version 3.30.10
>(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1987
>All rights reserved
>

Hmm.  The Tandy 2500XL wouldn't happen to have DOS installed in ROM,
would it? I know some of the newer Tandy's do, but I thought it was
just the newer Tandy 1000 series (TL, SL, etc). That could be your
problem. As far as a remedy? I would assume that you need to upgrade
your ROM chip with one that has the DOS 5.0 kernel on it, which I
seriously doubt Tandy will have available anytime soon, if ever. :-(
Talk to a Tandy rep. I am sure that they must have heard a few
complaints by now.

-Brian King  (brk102@leah.albany.edu)