Wellllllllllll, methinks I won't be able to get to Vegas. But thanks
for taking the time to look it up!

I actually have a Tandy 1000 case which I saved from the trash pile
and it looks to have most of the hardware in it. The problem is
finding a monitor to fit it. It is dual floppy and does search the
disk drives when powering up, looking for a boot disk (another problem
is finding that) so I'm guess it will work. If only I could see a
screen! :)

My old Toshiba T1100+ laptop was easier to get up and running. $5 on
eBay and a dude in Australia sent me the boot disk from his (runs DOS
2.11). I even used it during my return to college some years ago.
Hahaha! People with their new laptops and I'm sitting back there with
something far more ancient. I loved it.

Asides, when the lecture was boring, easy to pass the time playing
Infocom's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". ;)

- Ed



----- Original Message -----
From: 11011 110111000 <the_illiac@...>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 14:08:46 -0000
Subject: [columbusconsortium] tandy 1000 query
To: columbusconsortium@yahoogroups.com

ed--
saw this auction on ebay for a complete working system with lots of
software &
peripherals:
<http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ite
m=5118975021&category=4193>

currently at $25 with 1 bid and 3 days left. one rub, though: the
guy prefers pick-up in
las vegas, so maybe a long week-ender is in order? :)

hth,
ben

--- In columbusconsortium@yahoogroups.com, Pelzig <pelzig@g...> wrote:
> The Virtual Machine article was pretty interesting. Looks to be a
far
> cry from the original SoftWindows for Mac and V-Mac (but hey, it is
> cool to run an old Mac OS on a newer Mac OS...for whatever reason).
>
> But I don't know, I still like to have the actual hardware around
and working.
>
> Anybody know where I can get some parts for a Tandy 1000?
>
> - Ed
>
>
>



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