Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 13 Dec 2024 02:03:30 GMT Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <947j2lx3qf.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <24ffec92-9486-251d-7a42-d376b88b2c9b@example.net> <20241209135847.00004fb7@gmail.com> <2I6dnRAQE4x-u8T6nZ2dnZfqnPudnZ2d@earthlink.com> <142dnZ34m8FYN8f6nZ2dnZfqn_WdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <20241212125428.000078c9@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net WcR7E1xcpw/AjrjcHy+uLw+pIbLU6Jr3SyQIsStz2553K2Qn8c Cancel-Lock: sha1:CJpbCiA8MSTer01dTCMn3c8mnYc= sha256:RpD5Bp1V/8lvlVKgiK8DEO00N/oIiULJHkWcDeyhyeY= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62285 On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 12:54:28 -0800, John Ames wrote: > Some of the later Tandy 1000 series did as well, before they eventually > pivoted from being a vastly improved PCjr to being Yet Another VGA 386. That was a strange interlude. I'm from the generation where you went to Tandy Leather to get the materials for your hand tooled wallet Boy Scout project. Then when they wanted to distance themselves from the Trash-80 they jumped from handicrafts to 'serious' computers. There's a joke about the BATF that 'Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms' should be the name of a convenience store. There was a store in a small Maine town that did all that and more, adding Tandy computers to the mix. They also had general hardware and some food. One stop shopping. A friend moonlighted setting up Tandy systems for local government, schools, and small businesses.