Re: Tiger Learning Computer

[buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

TIGER COMPUTER (Apple IIe clone)


Dr. Tom Turley (San Francisco CA) told me about the Tiger Computer (IIe 
clone) almost a year ago.  Despite his unpopularity with programmers, Dr. 
Tom has his "ear to the ground" about new products.  This is not a 
surprise because he is in Steve Wozniak's inner circle of Apple II 
consultants.


Steve Buggie

'I deny that I have ever been a communist or an associate of Tom Turley..."

;-)



pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:
: Shawn Beattie <shawn@beattie.net> wrote:
: >I had a chance to use a Tiger Learning Computer for a couple hours.
: >Here are some remarks:
: >
: >* The colors are crisp - no noticable fringing.  The startup screen and
: >  desktop seem to use double high-res.  80 column was pretty readable.

: Wait, are you saying that 80 columns is readable on a TV?  That would
: indeed be impressive.


: >* The battery-backed RAM cart is a nice option.  From the Desktop, I was
: >  able to format, copy ProDOS and BASIC.SYSTEM, and boot using the
: >  rudimentary interface for copying and booting.
: >
: >* The two cartridge slots appear as S6,D1 and S6,D2.  When there are no
: >  carts, the ROMdisk is S6,D1.
: >
: >* Appleworks 4.3 is pretty unusable because of the poor keyboard, 19K
: >  desktop, inability to run UltraMacros (not enough memory), lack of a
: >  clock, and inability to save settings (because of ROMdisk).  The
: >  TimeOut Paint program doesn't seem to recognize the mouse, or it just
: >  locks up.  Choosing other Timeout menu items just returns a
: >  "UltraMacros must be enabled" message.

: Have you tried to plug the AppleWorks cart into one slot and the RAM
: cart into another?  AppleWorks will usually make use of slot based
: RAM expansion cards.  It seems that the RAM cart, except for being
: battery backed, is essentially a slinky RAM card in cart form.  When
: AppleWorks has access to it, it should use it as desktop RAM, provided
: you don't format it first.  If you use the computer again, give this
: method a try.  There has to be a reason they put v4.3 on the cart.
: If the Tiger really is stuck with just 128K and the RAM cart does
: nothing but provide a RAM disk, I would expect them to use v3.0 of
: AppleWorks.

: -Scott G.