Tandy Silver

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 25 08:34 , Bill Campbell, showing utter disregard for 
>spell-checkers gave us this: 
>
>> On Wed, Aug 25, 2004, GCC Consulting wrote:
>> ...
>> >> Which chips were these?   There certainly weren't many standards in
>> >> the early days.  I remember some of the best serial cards for the
>> >> PC didn't use the brain-dead 8250 Intel chips.   Those were such a
>> >> pain, particularly for those who integrated them into 
>> >> multiport serial cards, as they could get into a state where 
>> >> only a complete power cycle would clear those.
>
>> >I'm having a "senior moment here" but I think instead of using
>> >the 286 processor, they use a 186. It was something akin to
>> >this. Tandy used a slightly different version of the processor
>> >everyone else was using.
>
>> If I remeber correctly the Tandy 2000 used an 80186, and had
>> enhanced video capabilities that were (a) very nice, and (b)
>> incompatible with anything non-Tandy. The Tandy 3000 was the
>> first non-IBM Microchannel box (and 8MB of RAM for the Tandy
>> 4000 cost close to 10 grand :-).
>
>Now who's having a senior moment.  The 3000s were 80268 machine.
>Standard AT style bus.  The 4000's were 80386 machines also
>with the standard AT architecture.  The 5000's were 80386 with
>MCA architecture.

I can explain my senior moment in that the only Tandy x86 boxes I ever ran
were the Tandy 4000s.  I wouldn't touch anything Intel less than an 80386,
and didn't do MCA as it was basically IBM proprietary.

Bill
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