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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: The Tandy 2000 Personal Computer
Message-ID: <1972@encore.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 23:07:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: encore.1972
Posted: Tue Sep 22 23:07:36 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Sep-87 06:48:54 EDT
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Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
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Organization: Encore Computer Corp., Marlboro, MA
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In article <7279@reed.UUCP> palegray@reed.UUCP (Prometheus Hawthorne) writes:
>	I have a Tandy 2000. The programs I have for it, plus the very 
>attractive design of it, make it a very nice computer to have.

I agree.  It's a wonderful machine.  I used to own one.  In fact, I was the
first kid on my block to own one (got it 2/14/84).

I also got rid of it eventually.  Why?  Simple:  I couldn't stand Tandy's
cavalier approach to supporting the machine.  Not only did it have a
proprietary bus architecture and was hardware-incompatible with just about
everything in existance, but Tandy did NOTHING to encourage third-party
development for the machine!  As a result, you were stuck with Tandy's
meager-and-wildly-overpriced selection of hardware and software expansion
options or nothing at all.  Not only that, but I eventually had it with
dealing with Tandy salespeople.  If I wanted to do something that was
not part of one of Tandy's prepackaged solutions, they were lost.  You ask
them a question on item availability or pricing, and the first (and only)
thing they do is pick up the same glossy catalogue that you and I get and
look it up.  I'm educated, and I don't need anyone to read the catalogue
to me, thank you!

Anyhow, I now have a chop-suey PClone with a 12 MHz baby-286 motherboard, 
and I couldn't be happier...

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