Comment Re:Tandy from Radio Shack! (Score 1) 1485
Also a Tandy 1000HX here. Eventually it was upgraded to include a 300 baud modem, 640KB of ram, and the second 3.5" floppy. As far as I can remember, the only other thing available for that monster was a clock. Whew.
What I loved about that machine was this:
My math teacher at the time had an IBM clone at home, and I gave him a copy of a game called Thexter and told him that I really liked the sound on this game. (Now for those of you who don't remember this game, during the initial load and any interludes, it would play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven). He commented the next day that he thought it was a travesty to play Beethoven on a system that was capable of polyphonic sound. I was surprised (being the newbie that I was) that he wasn't impressed. He came over to my house after school and I loaded the game on the 1000HX and he started to freak out about the polyphonic sound on that thing.
What I loved about that machine was this:
My math teacher at the time had an IBM clone at home, and I gave him a copy of a game called Thexter and told him that I really liked the sound on this game. (Now for those of you who don't remember this game, during the initial load and any interludes, it would play Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven). He commented the next day that he thought it was a travesty to play Beethoven on a system that was capable of polyphonic sound. I was surprised (being the newbie that I was) that he wasn't impressed. He came over to my house after school and I loaded the game on the 1000HX and he started to freak out about the polyphonic sound on that thing.
