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 Message 614 
 Blake Patterson to Zazz 
 GREAT OS! 
 16 Jun 19 10:50:20 
 
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 Za> 
 Za> You thinking of DeskMate?
 Za> 
 Za> It was a neat gui for it's time.
 Za> 
 Za> - Ruben Figueroa - Prison Board BBS

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.)

https://is.gd/YLslkS

Cheers.

bp

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