Tandy 2000 attempted to monopolize software and peripheral sales by not offering third-party products in company stores.
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13 Facts About Tandy 2000
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Therefore, Tandy 2000 would have to produce an IBM-style computer running the now industry-standard MS-DOS.
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Tandy 2000 decided to distinguish it from similar products by producing a better computer.
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Therefore any computer such as the Tandy 2000 that had hardware that differed in its details from an IBM PC would not execute programs the same way, which most often manifested incorrect results by those programs.
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Two models of Tandy 2000 were introduced: a dual-drive floppy-only model for and the 2000HD with a single floppy drive and a half-height 10 MB hard drive for.
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The Tandy 2000 received a lukewarm welcome by the market and the computer press because of its inability to run most popular MS-DOS applications.
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Tandy 2000 was marketed through early 1988 with continual price cuts.
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Tandy 2000 was among the first PC manufacturers to change this to the modern arrangement of twelve function keys arranged horizontally across the top.
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Several terminal programs were available for the Tandy 2000, making it possible to log on to BBS's, e-mail, and other remote systems.
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Tandy 2000 required a specific version of MS-DOS that would run only on this machine.
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However, the Tandy 2000 fared better in comparison to the later IBM PC-AT in that the AT was required to run MS-DOS version 3.
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