On Sat, 21 Jul 2018, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I researched Tandy and Tandy 1000 on Wikipedia.
It looks pretty obsolete, and it would be difficult to impossible to
find compatible accessories such as keyboard, mouse, hard drive and
other peripherals.
Many (if not all) of the Tandy 1000
> It looks pretty obsolete
I'm not running DOS for its relevance...
> Even the floppy drive is not compatible with standard.
Yeah, I know. I was thinking about seeing what that would take. Isn't
the floppy disk management all done from software, though?
> Where would you get Tandy 1000 and
Hello,
Personally, I just use the VMware flat vmdk format. The actual image file works
fine. With a little tweaking of the meta data file by hand and renaming of the
image file extension, it is directly mountable with macOS and Linux. No special
drivers needed. Under Windows, IDK.
But, did a
I'm interested in this approach, but I'm finding it hard to find
documentation and software.
From what I've heard so far, it seems using the on-board modem will be
more of a hassle than just using serial or parallel to connect to
something else with ethernet.
I'd like to stick with free/libre
I believe back in those days, there were IBM compatibles, and IBM
clones. Clones were, ...clones, like we have today, compatible would
run DOS programs (WordStar, dBASE,etc.) but were not exactly the same.
Replacing the OS with another is probably not gonna work. You could
replace the
