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Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Current LDOS version
Message-ID: <357@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 20:52:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 10 20:52:19 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 11-Jan-87 06:35:33 EST
References: <347@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP> <199@devon.UUCP>
Reply-To: rhealey@umn-d-ub.UUCP (Rob Healey)
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In article <199@devon.UUCP> paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.) writes:
>In article <347@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP>, news@umnd-cs.UUCP (news) writes:
>>    Misosys is one of the few companys that
>>    didn't abandon the 1/3/4 line when Tandy decided to drop the Z80 line.
>> 
>> 		-Rob Healey
>
>Huh?  Tandy dropped the Z80 line?  Well, maybe the Model 12, but they
>still sell the Model 4; now better that ever with the double-sided
>floppy drives.
>
>Did I say sell?  Maybe I should have said _carry_.  I doubt very much
>if they are actually *selling* any.
>
>-paul

	I guess I should have phrased that ABANDONED. The model 4 series
   had alot of promise left in it, still does. Take a look at the xler8er(sp)
   board and other options that third partys have come out with. Tandy has
   chosen to follow IBM and drop the 8 bit market, I'm sure the Coco's
   days are numbered as well. I think that 8 bit computers could still
   represent a reasonably good market if the computers were priced right.
   A 4D should sell for $600 at most, not $1199. I have CP/M for my 4 and
   there are alot of the same PD programs for the 8 bit machines as there
   are for the 16 bit ones. I'm starting to feel windy B^) so I'll finish
   up before I get too windy; if priced and marketed properly, 8 bit machines
   like the model 4 could be sold, Tandy chose not to do that. I love my 4 and
   can do some things on it that I haven't been able to do on the 8088/86 series
   machines, I just have to bank switch a little more than 8088's have to.

			-Rob Healey
			University of Minnesota, Duluth

p.s.
	Could the wonderful person who offered the terminal package post it
	or tell me where I can get my greedy little hands on it? 
					Thank-you.

p.p.s
	I just got LS-DOS 6.3, it looks great! Upgrading my files was easy,
	now all I's gots to do is write a make program for pro-mc and I'll
	be in business, who needs 8088's when a z80 can do the job at a better
	price! ( I'll add that I think the 4D should be ~$500).