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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy 1000 TX
Message-ID: <496@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 13:19:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 11 13:19:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 20:23:15 EDT
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Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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Keywords: Whats the scoop?
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> I have read an article about the new 1000 TX in 80 Micro and it sounds

> The bottom line is HOW GOOD IS IT AND ARE THERE ANY QUIRKS THAT CAUSE
> PROBLEMS?

You can bet if it's a Tandy it is the most uncompatible machine imaginable!
I looked at one the other day... it still uses 10" slots with proprietary
brackets that require a hacksaw and pliers to use IBM boards... it still
uses a proprietary pin out on the drive cable requiring you to purchase
a Tandy drive or hack the cable... it still requires a Tandy Printer cable.
Like all the other Tandy 1000's including the A series they ripped me off
with, the TX is designed to be totally Tandy compatible (not IBM) and to 
force you to buy their overpriced and usually out of date peripherals!

"Why Tandy, when there are so many better values"

    Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
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