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From: jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Hard Drives in Tandy 1000 Tx
Summary: No sweat!
Keywords: disk drives
Message-ID: <8920@mhuxu.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 89 02:30:43 GMT
References: <3430@druco.ATT.COM>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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In article <3430@druco.ATT.COM>, cac@druco.ATT.COM (Curtis A. Conkey) writes:
> I'm thinking of getting a hard drive to put
> on my Tandy 1000 TX system. I've looked at the
> Tandy drives and $600 for 20 meg seems a little (lot)
> on the steep side since I've seen 30 Meg drives for ~$300
> from the mail order houses. What I'd like to do is get
> a mail order disk and install it.
> Are there any Tandy owners that have gone this route?
> Are there any pitfalls to watch out for?
> Did Tandy do anything FUNNY to their box to lock users in
> to their drives? (This is what I'm really worried about).

I just bought myself a 30 meg hardcard for my 1000sx.  I got it from
a mail order house in CA and have been very happy with it.  The card
consists of a Seagate ST138R disk and WD 1002-27X controller and was
accompanied by disk cache and backup software.  It comes with a 30 day
money back guarantee and 1 yr. warranty.  The price was $389 plus an
extra $20 for Tandy compatability.  I had the drive in my hot little
hands in about a week (regular UPS) but I could have had it the next
day if I wanted :-)

One of the "FUNNY" things that Tandy does is use a different interrupt
for the hard disk.  Also, there were only two power supply connections
in my box but my controller card gets its power from the bus to get around
this.  The only thing I am dissapointed about is that I had to remove
my clock/calendar chip to put the drive in.  The ROM that it plugs in
under is right under the drive and it stuck up too high with the c/c
chip.  Some sort of adapter would be nice.

I have no affiliation with Shamrock, just a happy customer.

     Shamrock
     733-AA Lackfield Rd.
     Westlake Village, CA 91316
     (805) 373-7847

Check out their add in the back of PC World magazine.
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J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA            ...!att!mhuxu!jmj