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Re: GREAT OS! By: Blake Patterson to Zazz on Sun Jun 16 2019 10:50:20 > Deskmate is definitely cool. > I had a Tandy 1000TL in 1987 and it came with DOS 3.3 in ROM and an enhanced > deskmate that took advantage of the TL's better-than-PCjr/Tandy graphics > modes, rendering the desktop in 640x200x16 (original DeskMate on a Tandy > 1000 ran in 640x200x4). The TL also had a digital audio chip/sampler so the > music app was pretty nice comparatively. > > Over the Christmas holidays I picked up a Tandy 1000HX and have expanded it > pretty fully and, of course, it came with DeskMate on one floppy. It's fun > to play with. I've now got it installed on my "HD" which is a Lotek XT-IDE > controller with CF card. Also added a dual serial port and an NEC V20 for > 15-20% CPU speed improvement over the stock 8088-2 7.16MHz. > Here is a gallery, showing her evolution over the past few months. Pretty > much done with the upgrade now, happily. (That 384K PLUS RAM card was an > expensive and elusive thing to track down.) > Nice gallery. I found some Tandy 1000 on ebay but they are asking 300.00 for it. Still thinking about it. Nice improvements. Ruben Figueroa aka Zazz PBSync Prison BBS [1:124/5014.4] --- SBBSecho 3.07-Win32* Origin: PBSync Prison BBS, Mesquite, Tx (1:124/5014.4) SEEN-BY: 15/0 19/36 34/999 90/1 104/57 106/201 116/18 120/331 123/140 128/2 SEEN-BY: 153/7715 218/700 222/2 229/426 230/150 152 240/1120 250/1 261/38 100 SEEN-BY: 266/512 267/155 275/100 282/1031 1056 291/1 111 320/119 219 340/400 SEEN-BY: 342/13 396/45 633/0 267 280 281 408 410 412 640/1384 712/620 848 886 SEEN-BY: 770/1 801/161 189 2320/105 3634/12 5020/1042 5053/58 @PATH: 124/5014 396/45 261/38 712/848 633/280 267 |
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