Hey Heimo!
You wrote:
> Very proud to get Ole Juul confused <bg>
If you knew me in technicolour, you would get a <rbg>
(really big grin).... I am probably the most confused
person I know. . . . I think.
> - but it's simpler than he thought:
See what I mean?
> the Tandy-200 just had the double of the Tandy-100 screen
> measure, that is, 16 lines of 40 chars instead of 8 lines
> * 40. And the connection to the battery driven diskette
> drive was the very RS232C (serial comm) which even the
> Tandy-100 has/had. I have the orginal Tandy diskette
Now we're getting somewhere. Somehow I had the idea that
what you were talking about was a more capable machine. I
understand the usefulness of this one, but since it eats a
set of 4 AA batteries in half a day or so, just to keep
from forgetting, (maby _I_ should try that) I hadn't taken
it seriously. It seems like a pretty cool machine
otherwise. I even got all the manuals and a third party
book on it.
> driver disk and could mail you the files to run it - well,
> if you manage to get one of those cute little drives and
> the 100 KB diskettes used with it.
It's probably a small chance that I will run across a
drive. Especially since I don't know what it looks like.
Could you tell me if there is any specific identifier on
it, incase I find one? Knowing of it's existence will
greatly improve my chances. <g>
Yes, I would like the files to run it. Better to get
them now, than try to track them down in the future.
> ps - to call it
> > ... an extremely primitive little clamshell machine ...
> is doing great unjustice to the very first laptops that
> existed - and which were really rugged, easy-to-use, and
I'm SORRY! <blush> I _am_ aware of it's importance in the
development of the laptops.... waaaay ahead of it's time.
That is why I have collected it. <G> Otherwise, most
proprietary computers are "outa here" ... IBM, Compac,
anything with a name on it, etc, go right in the garbage
since I can't use anything except the rubber feet which I
peel off first. For a Tandy to survive my "attitude" is
really quite an honour. <VBG> (oh, oh, here comes the
flames!) ((I _do_ own a couple of PS/2s though))
I was just trying to convey a comparison to the machine
which I saw in my head when I heard talk of Tandy-100s and
disk drives and such.
> light-weight such. These and the similar Olivettis were
> the first real reporters' machines, survived soccer
> stadium braws, bush wars, and trick out South African
> censorship, for instance. -hc
So how about that battery problem. What would you do? Run
home and plug it in right away? Maby there is something I
don't understand. ..... maby I actually _am_ confused.
Cheers,
Ole Juul
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