ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara) (01/25/85)
Here are two pieces of information about the Tandy 1000/1200HD that have not shown up in discussions in net.micro.pc yet. 1. it does NOT have a socket for an 8087NPU 2. the character generator ROM is soldered in making it *very* difficult to use something like STSC APL/PLUS*PC which usually needs its own char gen ROM to put nice APL chars on the screen Todd Ogasawara ihnp4 \ decvax >---!sdcsvax!noscvax!ogasawar ucbvax /
cs193aat@unm-la.UUCP (01/29/85)
> Here are two pieces of information about the Tandy 1000/1200HD that > have not shown up in discussions in net.micro.pc yet. > > 1. it does NOT have a socket for an 8087NPU > 2. the character generator ROM is soldered in making it *very* > difficult to use something like STSC APL/PLUS*PC which > usually needs its own char gen ROM to put nice APL chars > on the screen > > > Todd Ogasawara > > ihnp4 \ > decvax >---!sdcsvax!noscvax!ogasawar > ucbvax / It is true that the Tandy 1000 does not have a socket for the 8087, but the Tandy 1200 does. As an interesting sideline, the Tandy 1200 was produced by Tandon (maker of the hard drive in it) for the now defunct Eagle company. It is essentially an IBM XT with five full length slots (two occupied by the hard driver controller, and the floppy drive controller. The character rom is soldered in, but for most people, this should not be an inconvenience. Working for a radio shack repair center, I have seen the inside of a bunch of these machines, and in my opinion, the 1000 is far superior to the 1200. We have had hard drive failures on the 1200, but there have been few problems with the 1000. I am hoping that Radio Shack improves the interior design of the 1200 to eliminate the problems with the hard drive bubble heating up / this has been the failure of the machines which we have seen/. -- {{ Mike Mitchell @ UNM Los Alamos }}