Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!GWilkins From: GWilkins@cup.portal.com (Gregory J Wilkins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy Subject: Re: My Personal Experiances With Tandy pt. 2 Message-ID: <17699@cup.portal.com> Date: 28 Apr 89 05:50:03 GMT References: <1461@csm9a.UUCP> <5962@cbnews.ATT.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 91 Posted to comp.sys.tandy Not cross-posted to comp.sys.ibm ----------- I have had it with Joe Applegates dripple about Tandy computers. He has either not looked into Tandy computers and their specs, or is just a plain idiot. I have had my Tandy(s) for years now... (Owner: Tandy III, 6000, 3000, 1000A), and to my knowledge, I have never had any problems with any of these machines (except the III :-) ). I also received a Model 16, but do not use it, as it is very very ill, but I don't think that is the Tandy fault...just a mis-treated machine when I got it). When I purchased my 1000, there were several reasons why I did: (1). Price. 1000 (Traded in for 1000A because of ROM bios problems, at N/C - I use to work for Tandy ). I paid 1000.00 (appx) for 2 drives, 256K, Mono. monitor, MS/DOS-Basic. This was an excellent price for the time, when everyone else was selling machines for almost twice as much. (2). Support. I knew that I could take my machine in if it needed service, to any R/S store, where if I purchased one of these 'clone' things, who would service/support me if the store went out of business..(which often they do). (3). Tandy's Rep. on service/selection/quality. I am not sure what everyone else does w/their R/S equipment, but I have *never* had *any* problems with *any* merchandise purchased at R/S, including R/S '01' stores. (scanners, radar detectors etc). You must abuse your equipment, or something, but I just can't see where you say *everyone* has problems. I see more people bitching about their IBM or AST products, because they fail, or go down etc... I have never had any of these problems, and I am very abusive to my equipment. As for adding other non-Tandy hardware, if you were smart, you could have seen that the chasis was 11" instead of 13" (I think these are right), and there for would have known it was not long enough to accept "IBM full length cards", but I have put several "IBM short cards" in it, and they work just fine. As for the 'cheaper drives', these drives are, in my opinion, are one of the best. The R/S Repair guy I talked to, stated that he has gotten less 1000's in for any repairs than any other machine Tandy produces, and he has not had to align any 1000A's drives yet.... As for your printer problems, I have 2 printers, IBM ProPrinter Tandy DMP 430 Both are expensive, but then again, you get what you pay for, if you paid 100.00 for a cheap printer, then you get just that, a cheap printer... I have had no problems with my IBM working on my Tandy, it does not drop characters or line feeds etc..so your printer must be a cheap piece of crap. I try and keep all Tandy add-on's on my machines, and yes, I pay a little more, but then again, I know that I am getting good quality merchandise, as well, I shop when Tandy has stuff on sale. You can get the hardcard (20 meg) for 399.00 or the 20 meg external for 599.00 including controller, I purchased my hardcard and use it to run a 2nd external harddisk with no problems, although Tandy does not support it directly, they are not going to say, well, we are *not* going to fix your computer because you have a non-tandy configuration. I have yet to find any software written for The IBM pc pc/xt that will not work on my system. Granted that you can't plug in IBM's ms/dos into the machine and use basic or basica (because these two programs search the ROM bios for parts of basic or basica - stupid). The only thing I regret about my 1000 is that it only had 3 slots, and at the time (being so young), I never thought I would use up all three slots, (boy was I fooled). If you had wanted a clone or IBM/PC equivalant, you should have purchaed for your company, a Tandy 1200 (100% IBM Hardware and Software compat.) So get off your high horse and give us all a break, so you have a bad taste in your mouth about tandy, let it alone, and just go out and pay for your clone stuff, and leave the people who like Tandy alone. BTW: If I had been the sales person when you came in and tried to discourage anyone from buying add-on's or whatever, I would have kicked you out as well...I would love to see you walk into a Nissan Dealer and go up to a customer (in front of a salesman) and tell him that the Ford's have this and that, and not to buy a Nissan because you don't like them etc....You would be removed from the lot their too. --Greg Wilkins gwilkins@cup.portal.com Copper Cellar Corporation Knoxville, Tennessee