old-computers.com/website
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Actions Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

All machines linked to their forum thread (full comment import)

Browse Source 
1,289 discussions, 9,527 archived comments; pages no longer carry the comments themselves.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YDRjtmAiNpo5mK5N3d7QwZ
This commit is contained in:
yann64
2026-10-13 17:26:43 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 055c3924f2
commit b274874139
1284 changed files with 1284 additions and 42835 deletions
Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files
content/museum/tandy-radio-shack-2000.md
+1 -50
View File
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ params:
- photos
- adverts
- links
forum_thread: 1186
photos:
- title: BILL GATES
subtitle: ''
@@ -91,56 +92,6 @@ params:
- title: Tandy 2000 Yahoo! Group
url: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Tandy2000/
text: Yahoo! Group devoted to the Tandy 2000 and alikes
comments:
- author: Joe Duarte (United States)
date: Wednesday 7th September 2022
text: Your release date is off by two years. It was released in September, 1983, not in 1981. The 80186 didn''t exist in 1981, came out in 82. The PC/XT had just barely come out in 1983 as well, and the Tandy came several months later.
- author: N. Fleschy (USA)
date: Wednesday 21st August 2019
text: |-
I loved my Tandy 2000 with its 3 volumes of instructions, including one for Basic, one for MSDos and one for Multimate.\
It also had an Edline program for making a simple data base.\
A program on one disc allowed for converting Multimate files to simple ASCII which allowed me to convert to be usable on a later computer. It was a workhorse. I was not interested in games, but more important was the ease of typing and editing a document. The printer did a nice job. It certainly beat using a typewriter!
- author: Jeff Joseph (Norfolk VA)
date: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
text: |-
There are some incorrect data in this article.
The drives are merely 5-1/4 double density 80 track, 720 KB capacity. These drives had been used for years earlier on the TRS-80 Models I and III. Nothing special, they DO NOT require the high-coercivity 1.2 MB floppy media as used on the IBM AT. In fact, the format is identical to that used by the later 720 KB 3.5 inch drives introduced with the IBM PS/2. The Tandy 2000''s 5-1/4 inch drives can in fact be replaced with the 720 KB 3.5 inch drives and freely exchange data on the very same disk format as used by any IBM compabibles using the 720 KB 3.5 inch drives. NOTE this DOES NOT include the later high capacity 1.44 MB disks!
As for the "80186" having done in the Tandy 2000 as a viable product in the computer market, this is hogwash. This article fails to mention that ALL software programs that run on the IBM''s 8088 run with no problem on the 186. The 80186 is a fully-compatible superset of the 8088/8086.
Probably what this author actually means is that the Tandy 2000''s hardware is not fully compatible with the IBM PC, and this was the reason it ultimately did not succeed. While probably true, the Tandy 2000 did survive in the market for 4-1/2 years, much longer than any of the other "workalikes" that were not fully compatible. Many of the bestselling software titles for the IBM like Lotus 1-2-3 and AutoCAD were published in versions customized for the Tandy 2000. For a full list see the Wikipedia article on the Tandy 2000, alot of which I wrote.
- author: Ray MacDonald (Canada)
date: Saturday 16th July 2016
text: Tandy 2000 was impressive on its floor stand, in fact the Tandy/TRS-80 nameplate rotates 90degrees to be cosmetically correct when vertical on the floor stand. Unfortunately only the green screen monitor had a cool stand matching the floor stand cosmetics, I guess because the color monitor was bigger and heavier it didn''t have a raised stand available. Special version of Lotus 123 was superior on this computer than the competition for a year or 2 before they stopped supporting it.
- author: Marcelo (Argentina)
date: Monday 30th March 2015
text: |-
Please, correct the release data, was introduced december 1983, not 1981.\
Note that a XT compatible the same year of the orginal IBM PC release is a nonsense.
- author: Dennis Sunde (United States)
date: Tuesday 9th August 2011
text: This was my second computer. I had an elaborate setup of boot disks that allowed me to run a C compiler completely from ramdisk for amazing performace. I used that to learn C programming in college. But the compatibility of this thing was terrible. I think I paid about $3,000 for it back in 1984.
- author: Chuck Coffing (US)
date: Wednesday 8th June 2011
text: |-
I have restored one of these machines. For some reason I like this machine (perhaps precisely because it is the red-headed step child), but the physical organization of the case is a nightmare. Removing any drive (floppy or hard) is a major undertaking. You cannot remove the floppy drive cage without first removing the hard drive.
It''s also interesting in that the bus connectors are the 96-pin euro-card style (same as the modern N8VEM project).
The newest version of MS-DOS available for this machine is 2.11.03, not 2.0 as in the description.
I am creating floppy images for this machine (DOS and applications) and BIOS snapshots, available at http://166.70.81.49/clc/tech/retro/tandy-2000/. This is a work in progress.
- author: Robert H (usa)
date: Tuesday 31st August 2010
text: I don''t care what barriers were thought to be the problems with it I usted disliked the system in general. My dad and a friend of his bought out the RS computer store in our city and bought home something like 30 or so of these nightmares. I did just to be fair try to work with them, but I never could get the HD cards I had to work with these. I have to admit that I dod not know as much about networking as I do now but the Coxal cable never would work. Eventually I gave up trying and went back to my Tandy 1000, and the systems turned into Field Mouse Condo''s for the next 2 years till they managed to donate to some school in Mexico. Good riddens to a piece of junk.
- author: Chrism3667(at)yahoo(dot)com (USA)
date: Sunday 2nd May 2010
text: the problem had little or nothing to do w/the 80186. The problem predominantly was the location of the video ram, not to mention the chipset it used (different set of registers). S/w written for a cga/6845 would choke due to the fact that nothing it would look for was there! There are other aspects of the h/w that made s/w go bonkers. There are fully compatible 80186 systems out there. They may have required a bit of tweaking, but the ''186 alone is not a barrier to compatibility.
- author: Asqarin
date: Saturday 12th April 2008
text: The Tandy 2000 was equiped with 2 double sided Quad Density 720K floppy Drives, not single sided High Density as stated in your description.
oc_id: 1219
source:
url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230605040856/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1219