scott@blueeyes.kines.uiuc.edu (scott) (10/17/90)
Hello again. I'd like to take a brief moment to post a clarification on my "Open Letter" post of a few days ago. At one point I compared FutureVideo's cable policy to Tandy's upgrades for their Tandy 100 computer, specifically the printer cable. I have since received email from several die-hard Tandy fans telling me that the comparison was unfair. Well, perhaps it was. My personal opinion is that Tandy made their 1000 incompatible with the IBM PC in many respects on purpose, simply to increase their sales of upgrades. Such things as short card slots, card slots which prevent a standard IBM hard disk controller from functioning, proprietary DIP header "slots" (in later versions of the T1000), and the choice of a proprietary card-edge connector instead of the "IBM standard" DB25 all suggest this to me. However, Tandy's compatibility is not the issue here. I chose that particular example simply because it involved a cable (as did my situation), and because it is well known to many net.readers - NOT because I have an axe to grind with Tandy (which I do not - I own one of their computers, as a matter of fact). Please mentally delete the Tandy comparison from my earlier post, and I apologize to those Tandy fans who felt my comparison was unfair to Tandy. Thank you for reading. -- Scott Coleman khan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign