Chrys Amy Dean Vrondi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Still have the Tandy 1000. I also have a PS/2 model 70, and a Tandy
> model 100 laptop.
tiens ! I still have that Olivetti M10, near-identical to the Tandy-100
- and *use* it ! (need not boot to look for an address, for instance)
And (miracle!) the Tandy battery driven diskette drive still works too;
I missed the occasion to buy a second one at the time, and Tandy has
closed down in Europe by now... (There was a German who had
handicrafted a diskette driver to use that Tandy drive with the M10
which had none.) This Tandy/Olivetti had the perhaps most compact
*and* comfortable BASIC dialect in ROM (hmm: (c) Microsoft 1981...),
and I have still a huge packet of programs - nice things like a
one-logical-line long editor, games, databases, comm-progs (that thing
did enormous work with an acoustic coupler: could be used even with
the telco X.25-to-telex service. And a sturdy *rugged* keyboard, not
one faulty key until now ... (Olivetti used to produce good
typewriters, and you felt it.)
BTW this workhorse I'm writing on now is a fast '286, and there's a
12-year old Seagate 251 HD in it, 40 MB, MFM, 28ms - got it at the
time by error when I gave back a faulty Seagate 225, still under
warranty, to the shop and got this one instead (double capacity, double
speed, same noise - so it sits in a wooden cage inside a foam rubber
labyrinth with its own switched fan, instead of that resonance case
called desktop.)
Cheers and welcome !
Heimo Claasen / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> / Brussels 1999-03-27
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