#tandy 2000

With the expansion of its title changed, this issue added more coverage of the Tandy 2000, even if part of that coverage was an explanation of how to transfer files from the Model 100 to it.

USA 1986

This "Home Issue" just happened to put one of the highest-end computers sold through Radio Shack on its cover, if displaying and playing the two Infocom adventures sold through Radio Shack (with the company logo added to the "folio" covers). I don't know if the interpreter was easily separable from the game file to allow Tandy 2000 owners to eventually play other "Z3" games. However, there did happen to be a Tandy 2000 in the Infocom offices up until they were closed down...

Radio Shack offered its own introduction of its latest computer (making the small point right on the cover that, for all that the "Radio Shack" name with its accumulated connotations had been dropped from the nameplate, "TRS-80" was still there) in this issue. The "Getting Started" article happened to be aimed at a slightly higher level than you might think, leading off with the comment about how the Model 12 could be upgraded into the multiuser Model 16.

USA 1986

Tandy's latest computer (using yet another CPU and operating system distinct from any of its other computers) was shown off on the cover of this issue. Ed Juge's "Tandy topics" column mentioned the Tandy 2000's in-house code name was the affectionate "Model J" and also mentioned it would be well suited for running Microsoft Windows. However, when addressing the delicate issue of how the computer offered higher performance than the IBM PC but couldn't run "MS-DOS" software that had been developed to directly address the hardware of that previous machine, a sidebar to the main article brought up an "old joke," namely that the resemblance of the Model 16 to a bowling ball was "there is no software for either one"...

USA 1984