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From: laverman@prismab.prl.philips.nl (Bert Laverman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: article
Summary: Still selling the M4?????
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Date: 27 Jan 89 08:32:03 GMT
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In article <193300093@trsvax> reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
>
>As for "dumping" products ..to my great amazement we still sell Model 4s,

  YOU STILL SELL THEM?!?!?!?!? (Threatening total breakdown from pure
and utter amazement)
Some 2 years ago Tandy stopped selling them in The Netherlands. There were
even some firms that bought the Tandy stocks for fantastic discount rates
and upgraded/sold them to - stil willing - public. I myself bought one
like that. Brought them my Model 3 (with my own TEAC 80Tks DS drive),
got back a Model 4 with everything over the CPU board transplanted and
128K RAM. It had the lowest serial number I ever saw, but it works and
was worth the price. (1/3 of what Tandy was asking for a new one) I
have since added a graphics card (compatible, but Dutch-users group
design) and a second drive replacement, and it has kept me from
buying some brain-damaged PC. (no offence ment for users, just the type
of computer)

  At this moment you will cause utter amazement and hilarity if you
expect Tandy to have ANYTHING for the Model 4, be it hardware -
even spare parts - or software. ("TRS-DOS, is that some special MS-DOS
version?") You can be considered lucky if you even FIND a shop with sombody
that knows what a Model 4 is. 3 Years ago it cost me some 8 MONTHS to
get a replacement for the 'K' key of my Model 3.
>
>					 John Reynolds

Bert Laverman
P.a. Dilgtweg 14
9751 NG Haren
The Netherlands



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