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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy 1000 - Harddisk question
Message-ID: <500@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 13:54:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: csm9a.500
Posted: Fri Sep 11 13:54:06 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 20:23:31 EDT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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Keywords: Tandy-1000, IBM HardDisk, Help...

> I have a Tandy-1000, the original 1000, circa 1985, and was in the market
> for a HardDisk. I was under the impression that there was some sort of
> Hardware incompatibility between the Tandy-1000 and the real PC world
> in the FixedDisk area. Is this true? I asked my RadioShack salesman and
> he said "NO, the 1000 is 100% IBM compatible!", if this is true, I could get
> a much better price on a HardDisk from someone other than RadioShack...

Wrongo... the old 1000 and the 1000A are definately NOT hardware compatible
with the IBM... in order to place a WD card in my Tandy I had to burn a
special ROM and cut a trace on the card!!!  That is only one of the 23
modifications I've had to do to my Tandy 1000 in order to avoid paying for
Tandy's overpriced, out of date hardware... and still at best I'd call it 
an 80% compatible!!!!

I recently did a survey for our user group magazine which surveyed 19 RS
stores and 3 Computer Centers in Colorado... over 90% claimed that the Tandy
1000 was 100% hardware and software compatible... 99% claimed I could plug
in an IBM keyboard to the Tandy keyboard slot... and 75% told me the Tandy
1000 would run OS/2 (of course I had to ask if it would)!  Tandy's salesmen
are either the most uniformed salesmen in the industry or the biggest liars!

"Tandy, because there is so little value"

    Joe Applegate - Colorado School of Mines Computing Center
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