zemon@fritz.UUCP (Art Zemon) (01/08/85)
Has anyone actually purchased a Tandy 1000 yet? From the
reviews I have read, it looks like it could be as good a
value as the CoCo was. That is, the T1000 seems to be
about the least expensive way to get a highly IBM-PC
compatible computer.
If someone has one of these, have you purchased any
programs or boards designed for the IBM? Did you have any
problems using them on your T1000?
Thanks,
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> Has anyone actually purchased a Tandy 1000 yet? From the > reviews I have read, it looks like it could be as good a > value as the CoCo was. That is, the T1000 seems to be > about the least expensive way to get a highly IBM-PC > compatible computer. > From what I have heard, the Tandy 1000 can only accept the shorter length expansion board_[q{s, and is not as compatible as they claim. That is all I know about the Tandy 1000, but because they are so new, I would give it a little time to get settled before buying one. Tim Thomas -- ...Tim Thomas ...{burdvax, rocksvax, bbncca, decvax, dual, rocksanne, watmath}!sunybcs!ugthomas
mikey@trsvax.UUCP (01/13/85)
I purchased one for my brother before Christmas. However, my views about the machine are obviously very biased. mikey at trsvax Of course, these are my own opinions and may or may not be those of my employer.
marino@hcradm.UUCP (Marino Vereecke) (01/16/85)
Byte will be coming out with a review in the next couple of months. In their December issue they outlined the product specs. Apparently the boards used on the IBM PC are too long for the TANDY 1000 as it requires shorter 10 1/2" boards.
greggt@ncoast.UUCP (Gregg Thompson) (01/21/85)
The Tandy 1000 is a nice machine if you get one that works. We have taken ours back several times with something different each time. First they installed the second disk drive wrong, then the computer was locking up when you had a certain color combination on the screen, and our latest problem is that the cursor comes and goes on screen 0. We have gone through 3 different 1000 machines and we are about to take this one back to get another replacement. Now that that is out of the way... Yes the machine is a good machine when it works. When we bought it the machine came with DeskMate, Tandy's Ms-dos, Basic, and some standard programs that come with Ms-dos. The only manuals we received however was a manual for the Basic and DeskMate. Basic also had a que card and DeskMate had some booklets and a tutorial book. There wasn't any Dos manual! So being new to Ms-dos is frustrating with no manuals! The Basic book did talk about how to backup and format disks but that was about it! Through some friends with their PCs I was able to learn some things. I would still like to know what ANSI.SYS does for me other than taking up space, we have a termcap on our system that states you need ansi and it will give you some nice escape codes and stuff like that but I don't know how to let my terminal programs know it is there. DeskMate is the program that I have that has a terminal program that the Xenix system can send escape codes to to make the cursor move and a few other small things (I had to make the termcap). The Basic has all the standard stuff that Pc-dos has and DeskMate is great for people who want to be organized when working with the computer. It has a wordprocessor, spread sheat, database, telecom program, mail program, and more. We haven't bought any Pc cards yet but we did buy Microsoft's Flight simulator which works with no problems. Since the keyboard is slightly different than the Pc's we prefered the Pcjr keyboard layout than the regular Pc when the program asked for which kind of computer. The joystick is also compatable with the program. A friend ran Lotus 1-2-3 and it worked fine. So the machine is Pc compatable and haven't found any programs that run on the Pc that doesn't run on the Tandy 1000.