toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) (09/05/87)
I have a Tandy-1000, the original 1000, circa 1985, and was in the market for a HardDisk. I was under the impression that there was some sort of Hardware incompatibility between the Tandy-1000 and the real PC world in the FixedDisk area. Is this true? I asked my RadioShack salesman and he said "NO, the 1000 is 100% IBM compatible!", if this is true, I could get a much better price on a HardDisk from someone other than RadioShack... Could anybody help me on this? Thanks, Tom : UUCP, ...!ihnp4!killer!toma -- ------------- Tom Armistead UUCP: ...!ihnp4!killer!toma
abc@brl-adm.UUCP (09/10/87)
In article <1484@killer.UUCP> toma@killer.UUCP (Tom Armistead) writes: >I have a Tandy-1000, the original 1000, circa 1985, and was in the market >for a HardDisk. I was under the impression that there was some sort of >Hardware incompatibility between the Tandy-1000 and the real PC world >in the FixedDisk area. Is this true? I asked my RadioShack salesman and >he said "NO, the 1000 is 100% IBM compatible!", if this is true, I could get >a much better price on a HardDisk from someone other than RadioShack... My son has the same vintage Tandy-1000. It is NOT 100% IBM compatible. Specifically, the T-1000 and the IBM-PC familay handle DMA (direct memory access) quite differently. You must have a Tandy-compatible hard disk. However, do not dispair. Get a copy of "80 Micro" and read the ads. There are several hard cards that will work well with your machine. Many of them come with the disk formated, bad blocks locked out (there are always a few), and MSDOS already installed. Two companies that come to mind are: 1. Hard Drive Specialist 800-231-6671 20 Meg hard card advertised recently at $499 2. Zuckerboard 800-222-4920 20 Meg hard card advertised recently at $599 My son has #1. It was easy to install and has worked flawlessly for a year so far. -- Brint Cooper