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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: OS9 Level 2 CC3Disk Driver
Message-ID: <1582@ihwpt.ATT.COM>
Date: Wed, 8-Apr-87 12:53:27 EST
Article-I.D.: ihwpt.1582
Posted: Wed Apr  8 12:53:27 1987
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Keywords: More specific complaints
Summary: No longer true of Tandy, be fair

> >external storage is useless).  Can anyone explain to me why Tandy always
> >provides such excellent operating systems with such LOUSY device drivers?
> >                                           Terry 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

> 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!"....
> 
> Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center

Lots of musicians buy synthesizers from a motorcycle company.
Seriously, what you say was quite true.  Until OS9 Level II.
The CONFIG file has descriptors for 40 and 80 double-sided disks,
and the manual even states "check with your supplier if uncertain
about your disk drive size."  YOUR SUPPLIER, as in non-Tandy!
Did this just sneak past the Vatican censors in Ft Worth?
No, I think it signals a change in Tandy's philosophy.

Level II shows that The Shack is trying to break out of
the proprietary peripherals prison that you justly accuse them
of maintaining in the past.  Tho I sympathize with you over
your Model 1000 PC-non-clone, I think we should publicly
give Tandy credit for this.  Maybe it will encourage them
to do more of it!

BTW, the folks reporting CHD and other disk problems must have
got defective or outdated copies of Level II.
I haven't had any such problems, and can CHD to write-protected
disks all day.  People on the Delphi COCO SIG have traced some
problems to a bad batch of Tandy disk controllers made back
in 1982.  Now if you want to discuss Tandy's quality control..
well, there's always comp.sys.commodore.64 or whatever ;-)
	--mike knudsen  Delph:RAGTIMER  CIS:who can remember?

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