Portable 100/200/600 June 1986
The cover story for this issue opened asking you to "Forget the hard-to-read screen. Forget about the need to carry a pound-and-a-half battery charger, turning a 9.5-pound baby computer into an 11-pound butterball. Forget about the slower-than-molasses disk drive." Microsoft Word on the Tandy 600 made up for all of that, although it wasn't quite "the full-featured Microsoft Word that Macintosh owners have grown to love." Tandy's earlier portables received attention as well through a review of an improved "snap-in ROM" (which came with a new program to command their portable disk drive that's still in use today to command modern equivalents of the mass storage device) and programs to create bar charts and pie graphs (even though they didn't have a "CIRCLE" command in their BASIC).