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- From: dd2x@andrew.cmu.edu (David Eugene Dwiggins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: Why Tandy?
- Message-ID: <Aec0UsK00YdeE1P5gG@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 23:28:56 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.171458.42654@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 18
- In-Reply-To: <1992Aug29.171458.42654@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- I don't think Radio Shack has ever offered a "game port" for $200.
- Unless, of course, it was connected to a sound blaster....
-
- Bad quality--not really. I have owned several Tandy models in the past,
- and I never had a quality problem. Tandy modeled their quality control
- program after AT&T's.
-
- (Besides the tons of defective Western Digital hard drives they sold. I don't
- think they thought a name like Western Digital would be so crappy).
-
- Expensive, yes. Expensive upgrades, yes. Not very expandable--on some models.
- But you get what you pay for. Tandy units are of a fairly high quality.
-
- I didn't buy a Tandy computer last time because of the expandibility problem.
- But I'm running UNIX, and that wasn't really designed to run on a 386SX with
- 4 megs of RAM. I seriously doubt Grandma at home is going to run UNIX.
-
- Gene
-