> > > > I'm mildly surprised that Tandy would have made an "upgrade" to the M100 > > that even with more total memory could not run as large a program as the > > M100. > > IIRC, the M100 was only sold in 8k and 24k versions, and to get 32k you > had to buy a 24k unit and an 8k upgrade module. (I don't think they ever > sold an M100 pre-equipped with 32k but I could be wrong...) Since there > were so many units out there with 24k instead of 32k, that was the target > for anybody writing a large program - if you *needed* 32k to run a program > you weren't going to have many machines out there capable of doing so. I'm > guessing this is why Tandy felt most people would be OK with 24k in the > T200, since that was the memory size many programs were being targeted at. > > I'm a little fuzzy on this, but I think they sold a 32k-equipped version > of the T102, but that came after the T200. >
They certainly advertised it, at least. https://youtu.be/pmVi6ZAaNXg?t=95 But I've never seen a catalog number for a 32k 100 though -Josh
