trent@cat5.CS.WISC.EDU (Scott Trent) (02/01/89)
I am the owner of a 256K Tandy-2000 and am looking for an additional 256K. The Local R/S shops tell me it's unavailable. Any suggestions? Scott Trent University of Wisconsin - Madison trent@garfield.cs.wisc.edu (perhaps trent@garfield.cs.wisc.edu!cs.wisc.edu)
robert@hemingway.WEITEK.COM (Robert Plamondon) (02/02/89)
In article <2207@puff.cs.wisc.edu> trent@GARFIELD.CS.WISC.EDU (Scott Trent) writes: > > I am the owner of a 256K Tandy-2000 and am looking for an additional >256K. The Local R/S shops tell me it's unavailable. Any suggestions? > The local RS shops are probably wrong. Tandy WAS out of them, but demand was so great -- few things run on a 256k machine any more -- that they did another production run. With 128k installed, the board retails for $149.00. Even if Tandy ran out of the new batch, you should be able to find used boards. The Radio Shack computer centers used to use 2000s for order entry, so they often have systems in the back room. They also leased a bunch of them, and the leased systems -- usually with color graphics and a hard drive -- can be bought cheap. I bought a full-dress system for $600, including a color monitor, hard drive, and Envision Design board. The trick is finding a knowlegeable person. Call up the Computer Centers and ask who their Tandy 2000 expert is. The average Computer Center clerk is far more likely to know who the expert is than he is to know the answer to your questions. Ideally, you'll find an expert who knows other experts and has an idea how much Tandy 2000 stuff they have. Here in the SF Bay Area all the Computer Centers are in constant communication, and can scrounge up almost anything. Envision Designs has a memory upgrade that takes a single external memory card and puts 640k on it, giving your system a total of 896k of RAM. It works quite well, and Envision Designs has been around for a long time. You can also modify an external RAM board yourself to hold 512k instead of its normal maximum of 256k. I've done this to two boards myself. Finally, I believe that Envision Designs has an INTERNAL memory board that replaces one of the 128K boards in your 256k machine and brings you up to 896k. They also have hard disk kits, floating-point kits, and so on. Their prices are reasonable, but nowhere near as good as the surplus prices I've been getting. Envision Designs 1539 W Pearl St Pasco WA 99301 (509) 547 1139 -- Robert -- Robert Plamondon robert@weitek.COM "No Toon can resist the old 'Shave and a Hair-Cut'"
tj@ingr.com (T. J. Higgins) (02/02/89)
in article <2207@puff.cs.wisc.edu>, trent@cat5.CS.WISC.EDU (Scott Trent) says: > > I am the owner of a 256K Tandy-2000 and am looking for an additional > 256K. The Local R/S shops tell me it's unavailable. Any suggestions? Are you saying the 256K Memory Expansion Card is no longer available? If this is a true statement, you may be SOL. Way back when, about 1985, I got the Card (but it only comes populated with 128K; another great R/S marketing decision) and then ordered your standard IBM PC memory expansion chip set (9 chips, I forget the number), and plugged them in myself. Also, I seem to remember a company that used to advertise in PCM that would upgrade a 2000 to 896K. I think I still have some old issues, so send me mail if you want more info. > Scott Trent > University of Wisconsin - Madison -------------------------------------------------------------------- T.J. Higgins uunet!ingr!b17a!i32tjh!tj (UUCP) Intergraph Corp. M/S IW17A1 b17a!i32tjh!tj@ingr.com (Internet) One Madison Industrial Park Huntsville, AL 35807-4201 (205) 772-7769
earl@trsvax.UUCP (02/04/89)
/* ---------- "Memory for Tandy 2000" ---------- */ I am the owner of a 256K Tandy-2000 and am looking for an additional 256K. The Local R/S shops tell me it's unavailable. Any suggestions? Scott Trent University of Wisconsin - Madison trent@garfield.cs.wisc.edu (perhaps trent@garfield.cs.wisc.edu!cs.wisc.edu) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Might I suggest you try calling the Tandy/Radio Shack Terminal Outlet Store in Fort Worth, Texas, at 817-654-0337. They might be able to help. They get in various surplus things, or lease returns and might have a used board in the store they can sell. But you might have to check with them several times until they get something in. *********************************************************************** <This information is provided by an individual and is not nor should be construed as being provided by Radio Shack or Tandy Corp. Radio Shack/Tandy Corp has no obligation to support the information provided in any way. > Earl W. Bollinger @ <trsvax!earl> "You were in the Clone Wars!", said Luke excitedly. "Yes", replied Obi Wan, "I was a DOS programmer. But that was before the dark times, before OS2."