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- From: RFM@psuvm.psu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: Q about Tandy 2820
- Message-ID: <92356.122129RFM@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 17:21:29 GMT
- References: <92356.001619U61474@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Organization: Penn State University
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- In article <92356.001619U61474@uicvm.uic.edu>, MATT HUNSAKER
- <U61474@uicvm.uic.edu> says:
- >
- >I am looking at buying a notebook for school. I was in Radio Shack the other
- >day and I wondered what they had in the way of notebooks. The salesman
- >showed me a bunch of over-priced for the market computers, but the 2820 was
- >only $999. If anyone out there has one or has used used one, I would be
- >interested in their experience.
-
- Tandy 2820 is a '286/16mhz, with 1 meg RAM, expandable to 5 megs (in
- 2-meg chunks), and a 60-meg IDE drive. Back in late 1990, InfoWorld
- gave it's little "brother", the 2810, a "Best Buy" recognition.
- My how times change. Even today 2820 would be good machine for DOS-
- based apps. Keyboard is very nice, hd is fast, cpu seems to zip
- along. With a '287xlt coprocessor on board, I know the 286/16
- will plow right thru a lotta least-squares reps without any undue
- slowness. Matter of fact, it seems fast.
- I have a 2810, 20-meg hd (40 with STACKER), 5 megs mem, coprocessor;
- have owned for @ 20 months. It ran 10-15 hrs a day most of last
- year while I was on sabbattical. Burned out the external power supply last
- Spring, but that was replaced in 5 minutes at RS store.
- System travels back & forth to class 2-3 times a week with me, where I
- plug into external lcd screen for projection thru overhead.
- Only real drawback to system is aspect ratio of screen. It's about
- .9 or .95, something; Pie-charts look kinda oval instead of round.
- One other "only" real drawback is that cpu is obsolecent. But it's ok
- for DOS-based stuff.
- Extra mem can be purchased thru places like TOTE-A-LAP & LA TRADE
- for $55-60 per meg. You have to add mem in two-meg (2 simms) chunks.
-
- BobM, PSU-Harrisburg
-