kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) (05/25/91)
drysdale@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Drysdale) writes: >kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >> The Amiga slant to this message is: too bad CBM doesn't have the "store >> next to each MacDonald's" sales outlets that Tandy does. And conversely, >> it's too bad Tandy never brought out a home 68K machine. > > but tandy *did* have a home 68K machine. ever heard of the model 16? > basically a model II (big TRS-80 with 8" disks built in) with a 68000 > board running xenix. this was back in 80-81 or so. she was not cheap. Sure, so that's why I specified "home 68K machine" :-). By that I meant something more along the lines of the first Amigas or STs. Back when those two showed up, Tandy began looking into building a <$1K dual processor 68000/6809 hobby computer... but the concept was shot down, partly by the more powerful internal MSDOS faction. Hmm. Tho Motorola is mostly to blame. If they'd shipped the 68486/487 video chip set, I firmly believe there would've been an inexpensive Tandy 68K color system for sale years ago. - kevin <kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu>