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- From: bownes@peterpan.crd.ge.com (Keptin Komrade Dr. Bobwrench III)
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- Subject: Re: CPU's used in early Tandy's
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.154701.3255@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 15:47:01 GMT
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- v462etnn@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (David L Anderson):
- > In article <93027.095754RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>, RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes...
- >>>The II, 16, and 6000 all used the 68000. They were meant for business use.
- >>I always thought the II used a Z80 chip also, but that the 16 and 6000
- >>went the Motorola route. Am I mistaken?
- > Yes, you're right. I forgot that the II started out as Z-80. All I really
- > remembered was that it wasn't directly compatible with the I and that at some
- > point it had a 68000 (as an upgrade option). But all of those machines had
- > 8" floppy drives, I'm pretty sure. The hard disk I was speaking of was called> the ProFile (I think).
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- >>BobM
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- > David Anderson
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- The original HD, was an 8Mb 8" disk, and it was called the 8Mb hard disk.
- Later HD's were 12,15,32 and 70Mb respectivly, built with 5 1/4" hard disks.
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- Profile was a database system that ran on the Model I, II, III, IV under trsdos,
- and model 16/6000 under XENIX.
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- If you don't know or are not sure...
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- bob
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