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From: hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Upgrading an original Tandy 1000 (questions)
Message-ID: <23362@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 27 Feb 91 00:43:30 GMT
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My kid brother's a churchmouse-poor rural minister; I got his family
a T1000 years back; the whole family is using it happily enough --
with ONE 360K floppy and a Zuckerboard ram-disk, and a half decent (EGA)
monitor.

He does have a local teenager in town who knows how to open the box for
them.

So I'm looking for inexpensive ways to make life there more interesting:
the Tandy 286 upgrade is no longer available (requires a daughterboard
that's not made any longer).

I'd like to be able to get a 720 K floppy and /or a 'hard card' disk
by mail order, get'em shipped to them and have good luck plugging them in.

Any thoughts/recommendations appreciated. Oh, also, recommendations for
a modem for them? Life will be easier once I get them online.

I can put a few hundred dollars into this machine, to tide them over til
I can send them a used Mac or my old IBM-AT or something in a year or two.


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