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From: zog@laidbak.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: The Tandy 2000 Personal Computer
Message-ID: <1162@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 17:21:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 24 17:21:40 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 26-Sep-87 15:06:28 EDT
Reply-To: zog@laidbak.UUCP (Christian G. Herzog)
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>>	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.
>
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>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.

Part of the problem was that the Tandy 2000 was one of the first (if not
the first) of the PC+ machines.  The thing was that since this machine
pre-dated the AT, there was no precedent as far as going beyond the basic
PC architecture.  Too bad being "MSDOS compatible" wasn't enough.  Soon after
the release of this machine, the AT set the standard as the next generation.

It did have some good points though, it had some really good graphics
capability (back when IBM had only the CGA).  Unfortunatly, the standard
that Tandy chose wasn't to be a standard either.

The software price was also a thorn.  I don't think it was so much overpriced,
it just wasn't available anywhere for a substantial discount.  Therefore you
were forced to pay publishers list price (does anyone really pay $695 for 123
for a regular PC).

I think they learned from their mistakes with the current PC lineup.  There
seems to be a push to stay much closer to the standard now than ever before.

Christian G. Herzog					ihnp4!laidbak!zog