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From: sciacca@masscomp.UUCP (Gary Sciacca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: TANDY 1000 SX or TX
Message-ID: <2330@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 13:49:10 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 13:49:10 1987
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In article <2778@ihlpl.ATT.COM> mitch@ihlpl.ATT.COM (Gerdisch) writes:
>I see a decent amount of griping about the Tandy 2000 computers.
>What about the 1000 series.
>Has anyone out there used any of these PC clones?

Yes, I've owned a Tandy 1000 for about 2 years !!

>If so how has it performed?

If you mean actual compute performance, 1.1 on the Norton scale is all you get!!

>How is Tandy's support?

The only time I needed their support was to set up a modem. I asked for
prices of their options and compared against non-Tandy options. I bought
all non-Tandy add ons such as memory, serial port, Hard disk controller.
Had no problems adding any PC/XT compatable hardware options.

>Can it run any IBM PC software or are there some incompatibilities?

I have a 120 MB Maxtor on my Tandy with about 32MB of software from Public
Domain stuff to off the shelf application packages. I have never run into
a piece of software that doesn't work !!! Of course there is always a first
time.
>
>I would appreciate any input since I am currently shopping for a computer
>and the Tandy 1000 SX (and possibly TX) are in the running.

I would go with the TX instead of the SX for the performance, Get the
5 1/4 inch floppy option for sanity sake. 
>
>Thanks,
>
>Mitch Gerdisch
>ihnp4!ihlpl!mitch