On 4/20/2000 10:02 AM, bpearce@cloud9.net [mailto:bpearce@cloud9.net]
wrote:
>>The Tandy was a great machine, the keyboard felt great, it was easier
>>than you could imagine to use, and I still use certain communication
>>tools from the Tandy with my Newton (namely, Laptap and QuickPort).
>
>I have a Tandy 200 (similar machine, but with a more familiar flip-up
>laptop lid and a larger
>screen) that I used every so often through the years. I was lucky to be
>able to still find some
>of the books and accessories at Radio Shack around the time I purchased
>it, in 1990.
>
>>Oh, and it was designed by none other than Bill Gates. Curious tidbit,
>>that.
>
>Well, I believe the *software* was written by Gates. (It also includes
>Microsoft Basic,
>built-in.) I've never seen anything that would lead me to believe that
>Microsoft worked on
>the actual design of the device.
>
>BRIAN/bpearce@cloud9.net
I think you're correct. The unit was created by Kyocera, as I recall. I
recently was visiting Yves Lempuerer's TRS-80 emulator for Macs page
(found a link to it on www.emulation.net) and it led me to another page
with info about old Tandy hardware, including the Tandy 1xx units.
That's where it said it was made by Kyocera.
NEC sold an almost identical unit, as I recall. The store where I bought
my first Mac back in 1984 carried them.
Microsoft did the BASIC in a lot of the Tandy machines, including the
original TRS-80, the first computer I ever used/programmed back in about
1977 in high school. (I picked up an original TRS-80 Model 1 a couple of
years back when the place I worked at was cleaning out their warehouse
and was just going to pitch it. Still works!)
My first "PDA" was a TRS-80 Pocket Computer II (still have it - 10K of
RAM, woohoo! Yes, that's "K", not "M"!) Also programmable in BASIC.
One line LCD display and built-in keyboard.
-Bill
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