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TonyDuell · 14th Jan 2022, 4:19 pm

Nobody has yet mentioned one of the best features of Tandy for the likes of us. Namely that for just about every electronic product they sold (audio, radio, computers, even 'badged' products like their pocket computers) you could order the full service manaul. It was a lot easier getting the service manual for their Pocket Computer 1 than trying to convince Sharp to supply the service manual for the PC1211.

As for their computers, I will admit I am somewhat biased in that I had a TRS-80 Model 1 quite early on, and have added to the collection since. But they were totally mis-marketed, particularly the color computer. It was not generally realised that if you added the disk drive to the CoCo, you could then run Microware OS-9 (which Tandy sold), a very nice multitasking, multiuser operating system which was better than anything else on an 8bit micro at the time. There was a very nice structured BASIC, Pascal, and C at least available for that.

14th Jan 2022, 4:19 pm	#22
TonyDuell Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: Biggin Hill, London, UK. Posts: 5,224	Re: Tandy sale 1991 Nobody has yet mentioned one of the best features of Tandy for the likes of us. Namely that for just about every electronic product they sold (audio, radio, computers, even 'badged' products like their pocket computers) you could order the full service manaul. It was a lot easier getting the service manual for their Pocket Computer 1 than trying to convince Sharp to supply the service manual for the PC1211. As for their computers, I will admit I am somewhat biased in that I had a TRS-80 Model 1 quite early on, and have added to the collection since. But they were totally mis-marketed, particularly the color computer. It was not generally realised that if you added the disk drive to the CoCo, you could then run Microware OS-9 (which Tandy sold), a very nice multitasking, multiuser operating system which was better than anything else on an 8bit micro at the time. There was a very nice structured BASIC, Pascal, and C at least available for that.