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From: kyle@nuchat.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy 1000 TX
Message-ID: <316@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 21:43:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 14 21:43:28 1987
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Summary: Proprietary drive cable???

In article <496@csm9a.UUCP>, japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
> 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.


Since when does the Tandy 1000A use a proprietary pinout on the drive cable?
I have *NEVER* had a problem replacing the drive cable with a longer one.
There is absolutely nothing proprietary about it. It helps if you know a little
history about the TRS line, though.  Actually, R/S's scheme makes more sense
than IBM's.  Radio Shack configures the drive (the way things were designed to
be done in the first place) and IBM configures the cable (YECH!)  I can 
understand why IBM does this, especially in this age of VOLUME, VOLUME, VOLUME!
thinking, but it really is a pain in the rear.