Search the web
Sign In
New User? Sign Up
Tandy1000 · The Tandy 1000 Computers
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Hear how Yahoo! Groups has changed the lives of others. Take me there.

Best of Y! Groups

   Check them out and nominate your group.
Having problems with message search? Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.

Messages

  Messages Help
Advanced
Messages 1224 - 1253 of 1521   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Messages: Simplify | Expand   (Group by Topic) Author Sort by Date ^
1224
I had posted before about finding 360k disk drives that were unable to read disks written by other drives. I decided to do a bit of research... I have about 30...
mikeh42
Offline Send Email
Jan 5, 2008
10:22 pm
1225
That's worrysome, I hope the spare 3.5" drives sitting in my closet aren't going bad... I used to have a 1000 SX with a 20MB hard drive, which failed long...
zachary2024@...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Jan 7, 2008
10:36 pm
1226
... Alas, on many of the 1000 series the parallel port isn't compatible with parallel port Zip drives. And if you are going to put in a SCSI card to run a SCSI...
shadow@...
shadow97218
Offline Send Email
Jan 8, 2008
4:44 am
1227
... SCSI ... Quite true, but remember this wasn't Tandy's fault. Tandy followed the older spec, which IBM altered with their PC. If you need true bi- direction...
mikeh42
Offline Send Email
Jan 8, 2008
11:35 pm
1228
... You can find external SCSI HDs and HD cases that were intended for the older Macs. Using one of those with a SCSI card frees things up nicely. Heck, I...
shadow@...
shadow97218
Offline Send Email
Jan 9, 2008
11:20 pm
1229
... and TL series are "crosses between the PC and the AT," because they use a 286 on an ... they are a cross ... way the video ... for the IBM PC ... believe...
zachary2024@...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Jan 9, 2008
11:20 pm
1230
About that CM-11 Monitor? Lee Wesley Furr <wesley@...> wrote: I'm pretty sure I've got two of them hanging around...if they are both still good, I could...
Lee Hatch
vleehatch
Offline Send Email
Jan 17, 2008
2:31 am
1231
Included accessory hardware and software, including games, with this ebay listing as item# 180208086001. These two TL/3's likely have expired ROM chips. Have...
admiraldonuts45
Offline Send Email
Jan 18, 2008
10:11 pm
1232
Hi, I've been thinking about buying a Tandy DWP-230 or similar older Tandy printer, but would like to be able to connect it to post-286 computers with the...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Jan 19, 2008
12:41 am
1233
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:38:02 -0000, "zachary2024" ... If it has a parallel port, get the RS/Tandy Printer to IBM PC parallel port cable with the db25 on the...
Stephen Castello
a_b5_fan
Offline Send Email
Jan 19, 2008
5:04 am
1234
http://rtdos.communitytoolbars.com/ for my website: http://www.rtdos.com Enjoy! :-) Woodzy http://www.rtdos.com ...
Jeff Wood
proteanthread
Offline Send Email
Feb 5, 2008
10:31 pm
1235
Looking for someone to transfer my Deskmate text from 5 1/4 Tandy floppy diskettes to CD so I can access the data on my current computer. I live in Colorado...
rourkejo
Offline Send Email
Feb 9, 2008
2:03 am
1236
Hello! My first post. I recently was going through my old floppies and came across a bunch of PNT files that made on my Tandy 1000HX I wanted to view. I...
l_p
shotgunefx
Offline Send Email
Feb 10, 2008
6:21 pm
1237
I'm hoping someone else will answer, however if you are really stuck i may be able to help. Neil...
Neil Morrison
neils_morr
Offline Send Email
Feb 12, 2008
6:25 am
1238
I'm in the same boat. I've actually got a 360k floppy drive in my desktop PC currently, so in theory it shouldn't be a big deal. I just hesitate to be...
Wesley Furr
wesleyhfurr
Offline Send Email
Feb 13, 2008
2:23 am
1239
If rourkejo could make a copy of the disk before mailing it, that would prevent potential loss of data in the process. However, this would only work if he has...
zachary2024@...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Feb 14, 2008
1:20 am
1240
Thanks for responses to my question. I don't have any way to make a back up of the disks. I do have the software I used on my Tandy 1000 if that would help....
rourkejo
Offline Send Email
Feb 14, 2008
11:37 pm
1241
Assuming you don't have too many disks, I can give it a shot. It should be small enough than I can just email the data back to you. Contact me off-list if...
Wesley Furr
wesleyhfurr
Offline Send Email
Feb 15, 2008
6:17 am
1242
I promise I haven't forgotten about you...just seem to be having trouble finding time on a half-warm day (when it's light out) to go dig out what I've got. ...
Wesley Furr
wesleyhfurr
Offline Send Email
Feb 15, 2008
6:17 am
1243
... Wes I notice this CM-11 is advertised as having a "NON-DOA guarantee" so, at least you'd only be out the shipping if it doesn't work. As regards the Boost...
mikeh42
Offline Send Email
Feb 15, 2008
1:46 pm
1244
I've given up on E-bay. I've bought two CM-11's off E-bay and they were both DOA. Couldn't get a refund on either. Thanks! Lee Wesley Furr...
Lee Hatch
vleehatch
Offline Send Email
Feb 15, 2008
3:39 pm
1245
if your in the seattle area, re-pc actually has a vintage section of their southcenter, tukwila store, which is where i get all my older stuff, and all of it...
k2x4b524p
Offline Send Email
Feb 27, 2008
5:32 am
1246
Go to ebay.com and search for item # 220206733396, then read the 2nd "question" that was asked of the seller towards the bottom of the auction. Anybody here...
Wesley Furr
wesleyhfurr
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2008
6:40 am
1247
Some people pay daft prices for some computers, like $80 for an old Coco 1. Neil ... auction....
Neil Morrison
neils_morr
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2008
7:06 am
1248
$1000 ? An original TRS-80, maybe. If it's a level I in its original box, yes. A model II, same as above, perhaps. A model III : no, plainly, no. The first...
Jan Vanden Bossche
jan80trs
Offline Send Email
Mar 5, 2008
10:47 pm
1249
... Must be crazy. I think I paid more for shipping than I did for the T1000SX I currently have. Of course I have a CM-5 and it had no hard drive.... and...
John B. Sandlin
switchtech_2000
Offline Send Email
Mar 6, 2008
12:31 am
1250
I haven't heard of anything like that, although it does seem that Tandy computers have been selling somewhat more expensively on eBay lately. An 1100FD laptop...
zachary2024@...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Mar 6, 2008
5:15 am
1251
I think somebody made that up or had an interest in raising the sale price... I don't think they are worth anywhere near $1000, but they should certainly be...
Wesley Furr
wesleyhfurr
Offline Send Email
Mar 6, 2008
6:37 pm
1252
I've never really been into collecting things... I'm a writer, the 486 laptop makes a good word processor (I put DeskMate on it). But it's true that most...
zachary2024
Offline Send Email
Mar 7, 2008
2:35 am
1253
Hey Jan, what's happenin'? I need some of your expertise. I can't remember how to format a three point five floppy for seven hundred and twenty kilobytes on...
Edgar Webb
louisstdubois
Offline Send Email
Mar 11, 2008
10:36 pm
Messages 1224 - 1253 of 1521   Oldest  |  < Older  |  Newer >  |  Newest
Advanced
Add to My Yahoo!      XML What's This?

Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines - Help