What sort of support is there for Tandy 6000HD?
Jean-Pierre Radley
jpr at dasys1.UUCP
Tue Jan 17 14:09:11 AEST 1989
In article <JEFF.89Jan14171447 at stormy.atmos.washington.edu> jeff at stormy.atmos.washington.edu (Jeff L. Bowden) writes:
>Do they still make/sell them?
No.
>I'm asking because a friend of mine can pick one up cheap ($100-200) and we're
>trying to figure out how much work it will be to bring it up as a BBS or
>USENET node. It comes with Xenix, (I didn't make a note of the version,
>unfortunately) 1MB RAM, 15MB hard disk, and BASIC. I was amazed to find that
>it doesn't come with a C compiler. I was even more amazed when the Tandy
>dealer we went to showed us a list of software we could order which include
>F77, COBOL, Pascal and BASIC but not C.
>There are several things I am interested to know.
Your dealer is retarded in the gray-matter department. Like many other
Xenix/UNIX offerings, Tandy sells run-time, and then development system.
The machine you're considering has run-time, but it's the development
system which has the compiler. Let him look up the Tandy catalogue for the
dev.sys., not for compilers.
> 1) Has anyone ported GNU C to the 6000? If so how can we get
> executables for it?
Don't know. I compiled lots of stuff with Tandy's.
> 2) How difficult/expensive is it to add more mass storage?
> 3) How difficult/expensive is it to add more memory?
1-Meg. is the normal maximum, and served me quite well for several years.
If you want more memory (why?) or more har drives, call Bob Snapp at
513-891-4496.
> 4) What version of Xenix is considered minimal to be used as a USENET
> node?
Use Tandy's 3.2 core system. the 3.2 developemt system is not out yet, but
the 3.0 will do.
> 5) Is it possible to add more RS232 ports to it?
Tandy admits to supporting five. Nine have been done, but slow... If you
want even more than that, again call Snapp.
> 6) Is it a good deal at $100? $200?
Sure.
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