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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: 1000/tl2 questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.223705.19662@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 22:37:05 GMT
- Article-I.D.: qiclab.1992Dec18.223705.19662
- References: <1992Dec15.125035.14121@netnews.alf.dec.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
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- karsten@ultrax.alf.dec.com (Kimberly Karsten) writes:
-
- > I have a Tandy 1000/TL2 system with the 20 meg idc smart drive.
- >What I would like to know is there any vendors other than Tandy were I
- >can get a bigger drive. Last time I check with tandy they wanted $300+ for
- >the 40 meg version of the drive. I feel that 100 a meg is quit high.
-
- > I was also told by my local Radio Shack person that I could not
- >use a standard parallel port board as tandy used a extra line on theirs
- >that one else used. Is this true.
-
- You can use *any* XT interface IDE drive. Please note that "XT". The
- AT interfacer IDe drives won't work.
-
- I wound up buying from Tandy because I could walk in and buy it. Mail
- order drives were all of $25 -$509 cheaper. It wasn't worth it.
-
- BTW, the 40 meg drive Tandy is selling now is switchable between XT
- interface (what the TL series uses) and the AT interface (what most
- other machines use). So it's worth it.
-
- Do note that *small* drives are very expensive.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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