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 Message 620 
 Zazz to Blake Patterson 
 GREAT OS! 
 16 Jun 19 13:46:52 
 
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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
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