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From: japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Tandy Printer + PC Compatible Query
Message-ID: <1419@csm9a.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 15:49:31 GMT
References: <1370@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu> <193300123@trsvax>
Organization: Colorado School of Mines
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In article <193300123@trsvax>, reyn@trsvax.UUCP writes:
> 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.

Perhaps you are better off... but I still have a computer that cost me
over $2000 by the time I was through, which was advertised to me as 100%
compatible, and isn't, and which has no upgrade path other than the
garbage can...

As far as the newer Tandy's go: I am not impressed... last year we evaluated 
the 4000 and I found it to have some major flaws... a drive cable that was so
short it kept popping off the hard disk... expanded memory that wouldn't work
with Personal Consultant Plus or AutoCad... in fact we never did get either
of these to work, and they work fine on our Kaypro 386's (which cost quite a
bit LESS than the Tandy's anyway!)

And then there is the new SL/TL computers... imagine a computer with the
worlds poorest designed integrated package built in... A package that
does not support industry standard peripherals or file transfer protocols!

> 			              John Reynolds
> 				      DeskMate is my life!!!

Deskmate is worth every cent you pay for it...

"Tandy, there are so many better values"

			   - Joe Applegate -

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