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From: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (cbema!las)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: My Personal Experiances With Tandy pt. 2
Keywords: Tandy Compatibility Service
Message-ID: <5962@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 26 Apr 89 17:39:34 GMT
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Reply-To: cbema!las@cbnews.ATT.COM (Larry A. Shurr)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, OH (actually an AGS consultant)
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In article <1461@csm9a.UUCP> japplega@csm9a.UUCP (Joe Applegate) writes:
[Chapter two of Joe's hassles with Tandy and Tandy computers]
>My first problem occured when I tried to hook up my Epson FX-100 to the
>Tandy... first I had to buy a Tandy cable for $30... even though my epson
>came with a cable that works on every other machine (even a TIPC!!!)...

I was one of the developers of the TI Pro.  We didn't make it compatible
with the IBM PC due to a corporate mandate to "...lead rather than follow 
IBM," but we were not told to screw over non-TI hardware and software
vendors and users and we didn't.  

Ultimately, the Pro failed to make it in the market place and its
incompatibilities increasingly became a liability so that PC-compatible
software wouldn't run on it, developers were not motivated to port
their software for it, and third party hardware vendors had no incentive
to support it.  At the time, we were trying to provide a superior 
alternative to the PC, not just trying to trap you into buying TI.  
Anymore, an MSDOS computer should be truly compatible with the PC family.
Now if only the PC family were compatible with the PC family :-).

regards, Larry
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Signed: Larry A. Shurr (att!cbnews!cbema!las)
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