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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: OS9 Level 2 CC3Disk Driver
Message-ID: <430@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 14:23:15 EST
Article-I.D.: csm9a.430
Posted: Mon Apr  6 14:23:15 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 00:54:05 EST
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Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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Keywords: More specific complaints


>Until this problem is resolved I'm stuck with Level I (a computer without
>external storage is useless).  Can anyone explain to me why Tandy always
>provides such excellent operating systems with such LOUSY device drivers?
>
>                                           Terry Ingoldsby
>                                 ...!ihnp4!alberta!calgary!ingoldsby
>

Tandy provides only drivers that will work with their inferior peripherals!
If they were to provide the same level of driver support as other manufac-
tuers, then their customers might be tempted to buy less expensive, more
standard, and generally more powerful peripherals!  Their current marketing
plan is create systems so locked into Tandy peripherals that only "hackers"
would dare to try and interface non-Tandy components.  If you think it's
bad on the Coco, you should look closely at the 1000!  Though advertised
as an IBM Compatible (at least it was when I bought mine) it has a non
standard printer cable (even their cable has to have pin 14 covered to work
with an industry standard printer!), built in non standard graphics that can't
be replaced, a non standard joystick port, a non standard bracket for add in
cards, a non standard Hard disk interrupt that requires a Tandy Hard disk
(at 4 times the price of an IBM Hard disk!), and a very non standard keyboard
that interferes with many of the programs I want to run and can't be replaced!

I drooled over the Coco 3 when it first came out but resisted the purchase
till I saw if there really was an OS9 level II for it... now it appears that
Ed Juge and clowns are up to the same old deceptive marketing techniques!
As much as I like the promise of OS9 level II, I think I will hold to my
original promise that I made after buying the 1000.... "I will never buy
another computer from a leather craft company!"....

Tandy, like most major corporations, is "In business for OUR business"

Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
       {seismo, hplabs}!hao!isis!csm9a!japplega

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