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From: U51773@uicvm.uic.edu (tom mckibben 2)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: speeding up Tandy 1000TL ?
Message-ID: <91173.071242U51773@uicvm.uic.edu>
Date: 22 Jun 91 12:12:42 GMT
References: <1991Jun22.031014.7135@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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According to the DCS publication "Upgrading Your Tandy", there is no way you
can get your 1000TL up to the 10MHz speed of the TL/3. NEC had planned to
introduce a faster replacement chip for the 80286 called the V50 but it was
never marketed due to legal pressure from Intel. Also there are no 386 or 486
replacement or accelerator boards for the 1000TL.

You can get a slight speed increase by bringing the memory up to 768K. The 128K
above 640K is used exclusively as video memory so that your programs don't have
to compete with the video which normally uses the lower 128K if your memory is
below 640K. You can also get a little more speed by adding a math coprocessor,
a fast hard drive, and disk caching software.

For more information about Tandy computers I'd suggest checking out the DCS or
similar books about upgrading the 1000 series and PCM magazine if for no other
reason than to see what kind of Tandy compatible add ons exist in the market.

Finally, at present there are no upgrade DOS/Deskmate EEPROM that you can buy.
If you want to upgrade your DOS you'll just have to boot up from disk instead
of the ROM.

I hope this has been helpful. :)

tom

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