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   On 07 Aug 21  20:43:10, Mark Da Silva said the following to Ward Dossche:   
      
   MD>  WD> It was a beautiful machine ... affordable, with a 20MB hardcard.   
   MD>  WD> Compiling the nodelist took like 40 minutes.   
   MD>    
   MD>     40 Minutes! Imagine if you had more then one network, Were they user   
   MD> ugradable at all?   
      
   Somewhat. The hard-card "was" the major upgrade, and if it added the DMA    
   controller you had slightly better speed. Depending on the model you also had    
   to upgrade the RAM to 640k and replace the CPU with an Nec V20 for 8 mhz.   
      
   The Tandy that I had came with a then-state-of-the-art 8 bit VGA video card   
   and a DAC sattelite-board. There were volume/microphone controls on the front   
   of the case. The Deskmate software had a crude but interesting music/sound   
   composer suite. This was all before Soundblaster cards became all the rage.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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