Tandy 200 Pros and Cons

Interesting things about T200

Pros vs M100/T102

• Hardware accelerated screen so much faster display than M100/T102
• Can wake up on timer
• Real arrow keys in diamond pattern
• Kill (and I think rename) files directly from Menu
• Built-in spreadsheet
• "Grep" through any text file like you can with SCHED and NOTE (I

have tiny BASIC program that will let you do this on M100/T102)

• Calculator function
• Capable of three independent banks of RAM (though REX more than

neutralizes this advantage)

• Touch tone dialing
• Many M100/T102 programs have T200 versions

Cons

• Heavier
• Screen is a little less dark than M100/T102
• Takes up more vertical space since flip-up screen
• My unit's hardware at least won't usefully go past 19200bps serial

connection like my M100, T102 units will

• Less RAM per bank than in M100/T102's single bank
• Not really software compatible with M100/T102 except for pure BASIC programs