Most Incompatable PC (Was: What's wrong, Keen or Tandy?)

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From: Redmond English
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1991 15:05

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In article <1991Jun25.004245.22299@cs.utk.edu> lape@cs.utk.edu (Bryon S. Lape) writes:

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>The Tandy 1000 line is the most incompatible for any IBM compatible
>made today or yesterday, bare none.
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I would like to vote for the early model RM Nimbuses.  These utterly
daft machines had a peculiar Nimbus bios, an 80186 processor, and a
built in serial port with a bell telephone plug!!!  Bizarre!

Only about half the norton utilities (version 4) would run, the rest
just caused the system to hang! Dbase didn't work, windows didn't work
etc.  etc.  You had to buy specially modified versions at inflated prices!

                             Red/.

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