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   Message 614 of 1,530   
   Blake Patterson to Zazz   
   GREAT OS!   
   16 Jun 19 10:50:20   
   
   TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A43   
   MSGID: 1:135/369 ad4f3f7c   
   TZUTC: -0400   
    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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