*Chuckle*

I was randomly searching for software, and I ran into TELMATE!!!

Who remember's THAT OS that was Radio Shack/Tandy specific??

I wonder if you could call THAT the 'first GUI for a IBM Compat'!

That program was 'awesome'! hehe... you had a calendar, phone book, a word processor, calculator....forgot, might have been a few more cool programs! Was it a fax program too??



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Ahh the old Tandy DeskMate package! Every Tandy 1000xx up to the 2500xx 486 models we would sell at Radio Shack, about 99% of all people would bypass loading DeskMate and just fumble around in DOS. They were lost and would
come back later asking where is the neat calendar, word processor, address book, etc...

DeskMate was actually a nice little package!

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Ahh the old Tandy DeskMate package! Every Tandy 1000xx up to the 2500xx 486 models we would sell at Radio Shack,
DeskMate was actually a nice little package!

It sure was I really liked it alot.
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On 04-24-19 08:27, Shane O'Neill wrote to KrUpTiOn <=-

Ahh the old Tandy DeskMate package! Every Tandy 1000xx up to the 2500xx 486 models we would sell at Radio Shack, about 99% of all people would bypass loading DeskMate and just fumble around in DOS. They were lost
and would come back later asking where is the neat calendar, word processor, address book, etc...

DeskMate was actually a nice little package!

I did play with DeskMate, but didn't use it a lot, mainly because:

1. I already knew DOS pretty well from university, and 2. I either needed compatibility with the software I was using elsewhere, or I was using text editors, program languages and other software that DeskMate wasn't relevant to.


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On Apr 24th 11:32 am Shane O'Neill said...

Ahh the old Tandy DeskMate package! Every Tandy 1000xx up to the 2500xx 486 models we would sell at Radio Shack, about 99% of all people would bypass loading DeskMate and just fumble around in DOS. They were lost and would come back later asking where is the neat calendar, word processor, address book, etc...

Hehe!! I was one of those! I thought it was GREAT when I learn dir, dir/w and A: B:!

DeskMate was actually a nice little package!
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Deskmate was! I can't remember, didn't it have a 'modem' program too?



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Deskmate was! I can't remember, didn't it have a 'modem' program too?

Deskmate v3 in 1988 introduce PC LINK, the final version of DESKMATE 3.04 in 1991 replace PC LINK with AOL.

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DeskMate was actually a nice little package!

Deskmate was! I can't remember, didn't it have a 'modem' program too?

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02/28/2013 04:35 AM 185,033 TANDYD~1.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 1 of 5).zip
02/28/2013 04:35 AM 151,400 TANDYD~2.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 2 of 5).zip
02/28/2013 04:35 AM 192,172 TANDYD~3.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 3 of 5).zip
02/28/2013 04:35 AM 147,099 TANDYD~4.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 4 of 5).zip
02/28/2013 04:35 AM 197,354 TA9CC3~1.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 5 of 5).zip
5 File(s) 873,058 bytes

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D/L 1st file as http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/TANDYD~1.ZIP and so forth :)


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Hello Ben,

25 Apr 19 13:14 at you wrote to Kruption:

D/L 1st file as
http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/TANDYD~1.ZIP and so forth
:)

This is what DOSbox was made for. I have a version of DOSbox with WFW3.11 in it. Works great.

Later,
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D/L 1st file as
http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/TANDYD~1.ZIP and so
forth :)

This is what DOSbox was made for. I have a version of DOSbox with
WFW3.11 in it. Works great.

Very nice, have to play with that one day :)


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On <23 Dec, 16:52>, KrUpTiOn wrote to All :

*Chuckle*

I was randomly searching for software, and I ran into TELMATE!!!

Who remember's THAT OS that was Radio Shack/Tandy specific??

I wonder if you could call THAT the 'first GUI for a IBM Compat'!

That program was 'awesome'! hehe... you had a calendar, phone book, a word processor, calculator....forgot, might have been a few more cool programs! Was
it a fax program too??

You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

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On May 2nd 4:49 pm Zazz said...

programs! K> Was K> it a fax program too?? K> K>

You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

Yeah, I actually downloaded it about a month ago. Not sure what I can do with it now! lol!



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Re: RE: GREAT OS!
By: KrUpTiOn to Zazz on Fri May 03 2019 19:05:36

You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

Yeah, I actually downloaded it about a month ago. Not sure what I can do with it now! lol!

You found it? If I may ask, is it available for download(where)? I have some old machines that are on DOS OS and would like to try and see if it will work. I know some of the deskmate versions were Tandy specific models but what the heck worth a try.

Ruben Figueroa
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You found it? If I may ask, is it available for download(where)? I

I have it at http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/ (look for Tandy Deskmate ...)


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I have it at http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/ (look
for Tandy Deskmate ...)

Once things settle down for me here, I have some serious additions for your collection. That's pretty impressive but I have a good stash of stuff hiding out somewhere around here that would be nice to add to
that. :D

Cool, always room for more {chuckle}


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Hello Ben,

05 May 19 11:36 at you wrote to Zazz:

I have it at http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/ (look for
Tandy Deskmate ...)

Once things settle down for me here, I have some serious additions for your collection. That's pretty impressive but I have a good stash of stuff hiding out somewhere around here that would be nice to add to that. :D

Later,
Sean

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On May 5th 11:00 am Zazz said...

what I can do > with it now! lol! >

You found it? If I may ask, is it available for download(where)? I have some old machines that are on DOS OS and would like to try and see if it will work. I know some of the deskmate versions were Tandy specific models but what the heck worth a try.

I'm almost sure I put a copy up in my file area on my BBS (not this one, the 'flagship, "The New Frontier 2" the address is frontierbbs.net:23

actually, I'll check here after I read all my messages and get back to you in about 10 15 minutes. I can't remember where I downloaded it from. It was a 'good' mistake that I found it! I was looking for amiga stuff, workbench, etc, to set up FSE under a VM. which I kinda put on the back burner. Life caught up with me. :(

Regards




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Re: Re: GREAT OS!
By: Ben Ritchey to Zazz on Sun May 05 2019 11:36:28

You found it? If I may ask, is it available for download(where)? I

I have it at http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/ (look for Tandy Deskmate ...)

Thanks.

Ruben Figueroa
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Re: Re: GREAT OS!
By: Shane O'Neill to KrUpTiOn on Thu Apr 25 2019 08:23 am

Deskmate v3 in 1988 introduce PC LINK, the final version of DESKMATE 3.04 in 1991 replace PC LINK with AOL.

Yeah now I remember! When they added AOL, I stopped using it. I did use PC link, and when I got to using my first DOS BBS Client, I think it was Telemate, didn't have a need for Deskmate. Too bad it wasn't kept up, Who knows, it might have ended up better than Windows back then
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Re: Re: GREAT OS!
By: Ben Ritchey to Kruption on Thu Apr 25 2019 01:14 pm

=== Cut ===

02/28/2013 04:35 AM 185,033 TANDYD~1.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC Comaptible (1988)(Tandy)(Disk 1 of 5).zip
02/28/2013 04:35 AM 151,400 TANDYD~2.ZIP Tandy Deskmate v3.00 PC

Thanks bro, I already downloaded it a few weeks ago! I have yet to play around with it yet, but I'm excited to!
Regards,
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Re: GREAT OS!
By: Sean Dennis to Ben Ritchey on Thu Apr 25 2019 06:28 pm

This is what DOSbox was made for. I have a version of DOSbox with WFW3.11 in it. Works great.

Nice!
Regards,
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You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

- 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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05 May 19 11:36 at you wrote to Zazz:

I have it at http://cmech.dynip.com/filebase.bbs/abanware/ (look for Tandy Deskmate ...)

Once things settle down for me here, I have some serious additions for your collection. That's pretty impressive but I have a good stash of stuff hiding out somewhere around here that would be nice to add to
that. :D

Sean, I'd love to hear about what you've got. I recently started driving a Tandy 1000HX and am always on the lookout for Tandy-specific programs.

bp

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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.
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You thinking of DeskMate? Za> Za> It was a neat gui for it's

time. Za>

Yeah, I actually downloaded it about a month ago. Not sure what I can
do with it now! lol!

I was rummaging around my boxes of 3.5 disk and guess what I found?
Deskmate. No sure if my old compaq that runs win95 will run it but I
will play with it some time today.

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On Sun 16-Jun-2019 8:46 , Zazz@1:124/5014.4 said to Blake Patterson:

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

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On Sun 16-Jun-2019 5:50 , Blake Patterson@1:135/369.0 said to Zazz:

You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

- Ruben Figueroa - Prison Board BBS

I used Deskmate to.

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.

I started off with computer using my Trs-80 Color Computer 1, Coco 2 then the Trs-80 Color Computer three. The best thing I liked about the Color Computer that I was able to use Os9 Level 2 with a 20 MB harddrive. I still have all of Color Computers.
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On Tue 3-Nov-2020 16:01 , Phillip L Taylor Jr said to Zazz:

On Sun 16-Jun-2019 8:46 , Zazz@1:124/5014.4 said to Blake Patterson:

A good friend of mine use to run TBBS on the Trs-80 Model 4.

A good friend of mine named Mike ran TBBS a long time ago.
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On <23 Dec, 16:52>, KrUpTiOn wrote to All :

*Chuckle*

I was randomly searching for software, and I ran into TELMATE!!!

Who remember's THAT OS that was Radio Shack/Tandy specific??

I wonder if you could call THAT the 'first GUI for a IBM Compat'!

That program was 'awesome'! hehe... you had a calendar, phone book, a word processor, calculator....forgot, might have been a few more cool programs! Was
it a fax program too??

You thinking of DeskMate?

It was a neat gui for it's time.

- Ruben Figueroa - Prison Board BBS

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