jeff@drexel.UUCP (Jeff White) (10/14/88)
We have a Tandy 1200 with a blown motherboard (I know because the same thing happened about 6 months ago). When we got it fixed the last time, we got a new motherboard, and the cost was either $150 or $250 (probably the latter). I've been looking into upgrading the machine, and it seems like this would be the perfect time. Clone 10 MHz V20 motherboard seem to be around $100-$200, and I figure that, along with the boards (disk, video, serial) and ram in the 1200, I should be able to assemble a pretty decent system, for hopefully less than it would cost us to fix the base 1200. What I would like to know, to those that may have done it, is if there are any peculiarities of the 1200 that complicated the installation (like their power supply is 1/2" bigger than the norm). I'm confident I can do the job, I'd just like to know if I should expect to run into any problems or surprises. Alos, anyone have a good motherboard the recommend. I may look into a 286 one, but with the standard 50-100 watt power supply, 10 Meg full height hard disk and 360k full height floppy (on 8 bit controller), I don't think it makes any sense. Would I be able to use the BIOS ROMS from the 1200 on the clone (in case the clone's was of poor quality)? Jeff White Drexel University - ECE Dept. rutgers!bpa!drexel!jeff