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In <1991Jun24.152209.14102@sarah.albany.edu> brk102@leah.albany.edu (Brian King) writes:

>In article <91174.181153CBTCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> <CBTCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:
>>I tried to post this earlier, and I don't think it made it.  Pardon if this is
>>a repeat....
>>My rommate just installed DOS5 on his Tandy 2500XL. The installation
>>bombed.  He said he did everything as laid out in the manual, & I
>>believe him.  Anyway, as I said, it's on a Tandy 2500 XL.  This is the  screen
>>appearance on booting:
>>*********************************************(My stars...)
>>MS-DOS Version 3.30.10
>>(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1987
>>All rights reserved
>>

>Hmm.  The Tandy 2500XL wouldn't happen to have DOS installed in ROM,
>would it? I know some of the newer Tandy's do, but I thought it was
>just the newer Tandy 1000 series (TL, SL, etc). That could be your
>problem. As far as a remedy? I would assume that you need to upgrade
>your ROM chip with one that has the DOS 5.0 kernel on it, which I
>seriously doubt Tandy will have available anytime soon, if ever. :-(
>Talk to a Tandy rep. I am sure that they must have heard a few
>complaints by now.

>-Brian King  (brk102@leah.albany.edu)

From what I have heard (no, I don't own one, and this is just hearsay),
there is a jumper setting inside that can disable the ROM.  Yes, the
2500XL does have files in ROM.  This will let the machine boot from
disk.  If you need more info, email me, and I'll get the actual facts.
Someone I know recently did this upgrade.

Ryan (tannerr@prism.cs.orst.edu)