Tandy Silver

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 09:40:01AM -0400, GCC Consulting wrote:
> > > This decision required the user to by the OS over and over again >
> > > thereby increasing the cost of the software. This might make Tandy a
> > > lot of money to start.
> >
> > I never saw that with the machines I was involved with. But those
> > were primarily XENIX systems.
> >
> > Was this the Model II system?
>
> Yes this was with the model II systems. However, when the model 12
> came out it had 2 8" drives. This eliminated the requirement that all
> software disks have the OS. Tandy did not change the requirement.

To clarify: you couldn't switch disks, so every app on a one-floppy
system had to carry a copy of the OS.  I believe that was the reason,
anyway; it's been a *long* strange trip.

Cheers,
-- jra
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