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From: vince@bcsaic.UUCP (Vince Skahan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Most Incompatable PC (Was: What's wrong, Keen or Tandy?)
Message-ID: <50605@bcsaic.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:17:30 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.150510.14644@cs.cmu.edu>,<1991Jun26.011811.11547@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <1991Jun26.144107.4982@menudo.uh.edu>
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>In article <1991Jun26.011811.11547@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
>>>>The Tandy 1000 line is the most incompatible for any IBM compatible
>>>>made today or yesterday, bare none.

I don't know what Tandy 1000 you're talking about because I've had
a Tandy 1000SX for 5 years, my brother-in-law has had a Tandy1000SL and
Tandy1000A for the same period, and  my brother had a Tandy1000A for
several years.

We have never found any PC software that wouldn't run or that hung
or that crashed...never.

We have had one small problem with bad memory on one of the 1000A's
that was a bitch (though eventually free) to get fixed.

I've added memory, modems, mice, floppy drives, hard drives, etc.
to them all with zero problems.

Now if you're talking getting ripped off when you buy Tandy-sold
add-ons (699 for 20MB hard card...please...) and the gruesome
keyboard and the short card slots, they are inconveniences
BUT NOT INCOMPATIBILITIES.

You'd better define the work compatible before you start tossing
flames around...

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