In November 1983, Tandy introduced the Tandy 2000, a forward-looking PC that tried to be better than IBM. The problem was the Tandy 2000 was IBM-like, but fell too far short of being fully IBM compatible.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.










