Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

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.