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From: reyn@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy Printer + PC Compatible Query
Message-ID: <193300123@trsvax>
Date: 11 Apr 89 13:48:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!reyn    Apr 11 08:48:00 1989


Apologies to those who are getting tired of this extended flame session,

but Joe has remarked that the Digi-Mouse won't work with MS-Windows.  I
don't know what your situation was, but I've used a Digi-Mouse with Windows
and it worked just fine.  Possibly you were trying to use the mouse with
the MicroSoft driver rather than the Mouse.Sys written for the Tandy mouse.

All in all, you seem to be about three years behind the times on your
knowledge of Tandy products.  Judging by what I've seen since I've worked
at Tandy, there has been a tremendous effort to rectify exactly the types
of things you've been coplaining about.  Virtually every deficiency you
have stated for your 1000A no longer exists on the 1000 SL or 1000 TL.

For instance, the Hard Drive Interrupt is now selectable, and comes factory
configured to the IBM "standard".  The Keyboard now has an identical layout
to the PS/2 keyboard.  A nine-pin serial port is standard and accepts
either the Tandy Serial or LogiTech serial mouse (no more Digi-Mouse).

Now it is true that the 1000's still have those short card slots, and the
640 by 200 16 color mode isn't a "standard" IBM mode, and the A/D D/A sound
chip isn't found on the PS/2, and the built in joystick port (which IBM
never had) is designed to fit Tandy joysticks, and IBM doesn't have MS-DOS
in ROM ....  but most people are able to overlook those shortcomings.

Anyway, I'm sure you,re not about to be converted, but you should make a
better effort to know your enemy.  In a very real sense you've already won
judging by the products Tandy is now selling.

			              John Reynolds
				      DeskMate is my life!!!