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From: greggt@ncoast.UUCP (Gregg Thompson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Reviews of Tandy 1000 wanted
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Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 15:32:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 21 15:32:58 1985
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	The Tandy 1000 is a nice machine if you get one that works. We
have taken ours back several times with something different each time. First
they installed the second disk drive wrong, then the computer was locking
up when you had a certain color combination on the screen, and our latest
problem is that the cursor comes and goes on screen 0. We have gone through
3 different 1000 machines and we are about to take this one back to get
another replacement.
	Now that that is out of the way... Yes the machine is a good machine
when it works. When we bought it the machine came with DeskMate, Tandy's
Ms-dos, Basic, and some standard programs that come with Ms-dos. The only
manuals we received however was a manual for the Basic and DeskMate. Basic
also had a que card and DeskMate had some booklets and a tutorial book. There
wasn't any Dos manual! So being new to Ms-dos is frustrating with no
manuals! The Basic book did talk about how to backup and format disks but
that was about it! Through some friends with their PCs I was able to learn
some things. I would still like to know what ANSI.SYS does for me other
than taking up space, we have a termcap on our system that states you
need ansi and it will give you some nice escape codes and stuff like that
but I don't know how to let my terminal programs know it is there.
DeskMate is the program that I have that has a terminal program that
the Xenix system can send escape codes to to make the cursor move and
a few other small things (I had to make the termcap).
	The Basic has all the standard stuff that Pc-dos has and DeskMate is
great for people who want to be organized when working with the computer.
It has a wordprocessor, spread sheat, database, telecom program, mail
program, and more.
	We haven't bought any Pc cards yet but we did buy Microsoft's
Flight simulator which works with no problems. Since the keyboard is
slightly different than the Pc's we prefered the Pcjr keyboard layout than
the regular Pc when the program asked for which kind of computer. The
joystick is also compatable with the program. A friend ran Lotus 1-2-3 and
it worked fine.
	So the machine is Pc compatable and haven't found any programs
that run on the Pc that doesn't run on the Tandy 1000.