Re: Re: Syncterm packages
By: Tony Langdon to Dmxrob on Sun Apr 22 2018 07:40 pm

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Seems like only yesterday I was booting up to the then new MS-DOS 2.11 on my Tandy 1000HX

I wouldn't say that, but time does fly when you're having fun. I had a Tandy 000 once. Was a reliable machine.

i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.
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Re: tandy
By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Sun Apr 22 2018 06:13 pm

I wouldn't say that, but time does fly when you're having fun. I had a Tandy 000 once. Was a reliable machine.

i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.

They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate, their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the time, very pioneering.

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Re: tandy
By: MRO to Tony Langdon on Sun Apr 22 2018 18:13:54

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MRO wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

i always stayed away from tandys because i thought they were a rip off compared to ibm compat computers.

They were expensive, but the quality was there, at least.


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Dmxrob wrote to MRO <=-

They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate,

Yes, the sound and graphics were ahead of other IBM clones. I had almost forgotten about that. :) The graphics was also better behaved than a lot of CGA boards of the day, not creating "snow" when you directly wrote to display RAM, unlike "real" CGA boards. In those days, directly writing to the display hardware was used to optimise speed.

their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the
time, very pioneering.

I didn't use Deskmate a lot, because I was already an old hand DOS user who had graduated from CP/M. :)


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Re: Re: tandy
By: Tony Langdon to Dmxrob on Mon Apr 23 2018 04:45 pm

I didn't use Deskmate a lot, because I was already an old hand DOS user who had graduated from CP/M. :)

Deskmate had its heyday, and the Deskmate runtime even powered the original version of AOL (called PC-LINK). I think if Windows had not come along when it did, Deskmate would have continued on. Just Tandy got themselves into this corner they couldn't get out of -- and of course, today, all of Radio Shack is history :-(


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Dmxrob wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Deskmate had its heyday, and the Deskmate runtime even powered the original version of AOL (called PC-LINK). I think if Windows had not

Interesting, well over here, AOL didn't come along until the Windows era, but they never gained traction.

come along when it did, Deskmate would have continued on. Just Tandy
got themselves into this corner they couldn't get out of -- and of
course, today, all of Radio Shack is history :-(

Yes, trends and technology moved on. And Radio Shack is gone, Tandy is gone, and in Australia, Tandy's last buyer - Dick Smith is also gone. Dick Smith were a great eleectronics and ham radio store in the 70s - 90s, then they decided to move into consumer electronics and drop the hobbyist lines, which alienated much of their customer base, and it was downhill from there. :(


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Re: tandy
By: Dmxrob to MRO on Sun Apr 22 2018 19:22:56

They pioneered audio (without the need for a seperate audio card) and Tandy Graphics Mode (16-colors before EGA was even a thing). Deskmate, their GUI, was designed so that even grandma could use it. For the time, very pioneering.

For this reason I sometimes use my Commodore Amiga 2000... a wonder machine for that time, now my mobile phone is more powerful, but fun to see where we came from and where we are today.

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