[Coco] tandy2000 computer

[Derek]

I know that in the Pacific NW region Xenix was on the Tandy 2000's.  Every few weeks I was going to one store or another to help install the new 2000's when some manager was not able to do it themselves or if a POS crashed. Officially I was not supposed to even touch them but the District Manager would ask me to help because help from Ft. Worth was not exactly speedy.

Ahh the days of Tandy 2000's and the monstrous DWP 230 printers..



wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote: From: Derek 
> Do you know if it boots to HD and if so is it one of the Tandy 2000's used in 
> the Radio Shack retail stores long ago? (It would boot to a POS type program). 
> 
> Would be very interested as if the above is true it would have Xenix OS 
> installed

I do not recall Xenix being on the Tandy 2000s that replaced the Model 4s in the Store Operating System.  Xenix for the T2k was never a very stable product and stability was _the_ holy word for the SOS team.

The external 10-Meg HD unit (same as sold for use with the Color Computer IIRC) would be required for one of those machines to boot the SOS.  That incarnation, the SOS was still back-office.  The point-of-sale system was implemented with '386 machines (Tandy 4000?  It's been a long time, I never liked the "real" PC compatibles and I'd left the company some time previous) running SCO Xenix.
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