Hardly. The Model 100 basic had a ton of features including modem
support, date/time, and so forth. Lots of programs and utilities were
written in the BASIC, and games such as Heartbreaker worked perfectly.
There was also a really amazing compiler that could compile basic
programs to make them smaller/even faster. I've got it on one of my
Model 100 floppy disks (which still works, note the belt will turn to
gunk but it's an easy thing to replace.)
C
On 5/3/2024 3:35 PM, Gavin Scott via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:14 AM KenUnix via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
Where would you fit the Tandy Model 100 in here?
The Model 100 had a great keyboard, a text editor, and a built-in
modem, and was apparently very popular among journalists who used it
to write and submit stories from the field.
So maybe it saw less use of the built-in BASIC than other machines of the day.
