knudsen@ihnss.UUCP (06/23/84)
<does usenet still eat this line?> Lest anyone think me anti-Shack from my rumors posting, let me say that I am pleased with my COlor COmputer and the Shack's recent hardware/software support for it, especially the 4-Pak Interface and the bargain priced OS9 items. Also, the history of Radio Shack computers is one of using the latest technologies available to get a lead on the market. The Model I used the new Z80 and the terrifying Dynamic RAM chips in '77, when others were still pitting the 8080 vs the 6800. In 1980 the CoCo grabbed the brand-new 6809 and its dynamic-RAM and graphics chips, about the same time Atari got into business with that tired old 6502. And now the 2000, first (still the only?) personal machine with an 80186, two steps up from IBM's 8088-based PC and its infinite retinue of clones. The reason people get upset over Radio SHack's secrecy, lousy documentation, etc. is because their products are good and we want to use them! If TRS really meant "trash" nobody would care. It doesn't, and we do. mike k
chip@t4test.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) (07/05/84)
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And now the 2000, first (still the only?) personal machine with an
80186, two steps up from IBM's 8088-based PC and its infinite retinue
of clones.
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"Only?" Not a chance. Take a look at the table in the latest issue
of "PC Week". Lottsa folks are putting 80186/188's in their PC's
these days.
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Chip Rosenthal, Intel/Santa Clara
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