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From: mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Tandy 4000...
Message-ID: <1761@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 13:29:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1761
Posted: Tue Sep 22 13:29:54 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Sep-87 06:03:38 EDT
References: <1750@cadovax.UUCP> <1320@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <1320@unc.cs.unc.edu> leech@unc.UUCP (Jonathan Leech) writes:
>In article <1750@cadovax.UUCP> mitchell@cadovax.UUCP (Mitchell Lerner) writes:
>>>Subject: Tandy 4000 80386 system
>>What kind of memory it comes with (how much and what speed)?
>
>    1 Mb/1 wait state. If the second Mb that fits on the motherboard
>is added, supposedly it is interleaved and memory runs with 0 wait
>states. There is also a 32-bit slot for a memory card.

That is funny.

I just talked to a Radio Shack rep. and he said that it ran with 0 wait
states.  Oooooh how those salesmen lie!

>>What kind of BIOS?
>
>    I am trying to find out.

He said it has a Pheonix bios.

>>and, What kind of coprocessor sockets?
>
>    The sales rep tells me that the board is socketed for both the 287
>and 387, but they only support the 287 right now. I have not actually
>seen inside the machine yet. The PC Magazine review 2 weeks ago said
>that early models supported the 287, later models the 387. I'll find
>out about this, too.
>-- 
>    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)
>    __@/

He said somthing that I was suprised at.  I asked him what kind of HD controllers they sell with the 4000 (how much disk cache) and he said that he didn't
know but that they were 23ms disks (CDC).  He said that they were SCSI disks.
I've never heard of anybody putting SCSI disks on an AT class machine.  Will
that work?  Does it make sense???

- Mitchell













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