[vcf-midatlantic] Tandy 6000HD lives!
Mike Loewen
mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Fri Mar 15 13:04:05 EDT 2019
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019, Ethan O'Toole wrote:
>> Another Tandy 6000HD lives again! The hard drive had a bad head, and was
>> replaced with a Seagate ST-251 (thank you, David Gesswein). The
>> foil-and-foam Keytronics keyboard required a complete rebuild
>> (disintegrating foam), and a
>
> Very cool! I still have a set of original Xenix disks for one of those
> somewhere. It was on my to-find list for a while! So rare. As a young BBS'er
> I was fascinated that it could support 5 users at once via serial ports
> (based on the Tandy catalog.)
I also have some original Xenix disks, but they're the awful Tandy brand
disks and are unreadable. The oxide just peels right off when read. I
suppose baking them might help, but it's not necessary (I have good disk
images).
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/
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