OT: Tandy Silver

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:12:12AM -0400, Ward Griffiths wrote:
> Yup.  A _bunch_ of black hardware available, and stuff that _almost_ 
> matches the Mercedes Silver of my old Tandy collection.  The color that 
> seemed to be the biggest complaint about the Model One aside from the 
> cassette interface (that was better than anything by Apple, Atari or 
> Commodore, it's just that it wasn't as _bad_ as those others so users 
> used tape long enough to complain rather than buy diskette drives with 
> the next paycheck).

And of course the reason that color was chosen...

Naw; let's make it a trivia quiz.  Anyone remember where Tandy Silver
came from?

Cheers,
-- jra
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