Still Available for free

James Fogg James at jdfogg.com
Mon Jun 20 17:56:39 CDT 2005


> > I still have a Tandy 1000 with monitor and printer, several IBM XTs 
> > and IBM ATs, some Corona luggables, and some Compaq luggables.
> 
> To help move them along, the Tandy 1000 is an interesting 
> machine.  I'm not sure about the straight 1000 model, but 
> variants of the 1000 have DOS and even DeskMate (Tandy's 
> windowing environment, which I believe was a tailored version 
> of early MS windows) in ROM.  Original IBM PC XT and AT 
> machines are getting difficult to find (especially ATs, which 
> it seems weren't produced in the same numbers as earlier 
> models) and the Corona's are significant because IBM 
> successfully sued them for copyright infringement for 
> basically copying the ROM code verbatim and using it in their clones.

Where are these? I'm in the market for a PC, PC/XT or PC/AT. Also
looking for a Compaq Portable III.



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