-=> mark lewis wrote to Dave Drum <=-   
      
    ml> hunh? was this for the coco or something else?   
      
    SD> More than likely for the CoCo.  I don't think any of the   
    SD> other systems had an external dual floppy setup.   
      
    DD> I think the Tandy 1000 used a dual floppy set-up.   
      
    ml> it could, yes... the original Tandy 1000 came with one 5.25   
    ml> inch floppy drives and could be upgraded to have two of   
    ml> them... later ones came with a hard drive and a single or   
    ml> dual 5.25 inch floppy configuration...   
      
   The only one I ever saw had a dual drive set-up.   
       
    ml> it also came with a flaw in the book on what to do when initially   
    ml> starting to use the machine... they explained how to boot the machine   
      
    --- SNIP ---    
      
    ml> write-protect tabs put on them... dad contacted the main   
    ml> office, explained the problem and a few weeks later there   
    ml> were new manuals sent out which corrected the oversight...   
      
    DD> Family Video (an actual healthy video rental chain) based in   
    DD> Springfield, IL used a T-1000 running Unix to operate their whole   
    DD> shop back in the day.   
      
    ml> are you sure it was the 1000? IIRC, the 2000 came with a   
    ml> *nix on it but i don't know what *nix it was... dad's store   
    ml> had one in the back room for their operations and   
    ml> reports... they did all their inventory control through it   
    ml> as well as putting in their daily reports and transmitting   
    ml> them via modem to the main office... i don't recall if they   
    ml> had started with the 1000 before the 2000 came out or not,   
    ml> though...   
      
   I was told it was a 1000 - and had no reason to doubt the veracity of my   
   informant - who was working for Burroughs at that time - and was the SysOp of   
   the first multi-line BBS I ever experienced - on a Burroughs B-20   
   mini-computer. He is also the current factotum of /user/group@springfield.il   
   the local Unix Users Group. We (still) get together every month for pizza and   
   beverages at a local place.    
       
    DD> People, especially Burroughs/Sperry/IBM geeks were gob-smacked by   
    DD> this.   
      
    ml> i'm sure... there was also a *nix or similar for the   
    ml> coco... my brain keeps wanting me to say OS9... we had some   
    ml> customers with some really tricked out cocos...   
      
   OS9 is correct. The Amiga OS was very *nix-ish without being actual *nix. If   
   you understood *nix syntax and CLI stuff you could get along very easily with   
   the Miggy.   
       
    ml> NOTE: i never worked for Radio Shack... my father did and was the   
    ml> manager of numerous stores... the year i came back from the mid-west,   
    ml> it was too late in the season to go job hunting as all the   
      
    --- SNIP ---    
       
    ml> for the paperwork and i went to the back room to get their   
    ml> brand new boxed machine, put it on the hand truck and take   
    ml> it to their car when everything was ready to go ;)   
      
   I never worked for Tandy either - but, I did own stock. Heck, I bought 10   
   shares and it gave me enough of a discount on my first Trash-80 set up that the   
   stock was essentially free. Never paid any $$$ dividends. But, it kept going up   
   and splitting, and going up and splitting and then I got 10 shares of something   
   that they spun-off and that split a couple times. When I finally sold it all   
   and bought a car with the proceeds I was very pleased ... even though the bulk   
   of the business I did with Tandy Corp after dumping the TRS-80 was done with   
   Tandy Leather.   
      
   It's sort of a shame that Radio Shaft seems to be circling the drain and may   
   spiral into oblivion sooner than later.   
       
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