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From: bevans@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Brian Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Is there really no better value?
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Date: 25 Apr 89 03:59:44 GMT
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Why did I buy Tandy over IBM?  Well, it's because I've used IBM's
over the years and found them to be quite slow.  Besides, the first
"real" computer I had was a 1000EX (which was a gift) and I wanted to
be able to use all of the stuff I had bought for it (25 pin serial
card, modem, memory, etc.) when I upgraded.  My 1000EX was on par,
speed-wise, with my friend IBM (I believe she has an XT), in my opinion.

I bought a TL because I needed to upgrade.  Basically, I needed
a hard drive and had run out of slots.  Plus, since I was planning
to do some compute-intensive work, an upgrade to a 286 seemed
appropriate.

I like DeskMate in that it gives me an environment.  It lets me
see my entire disk at once instead of having to search through
directories.  Granted, the bells and whistles ain't much, but that
isn't why I use it.  DeskMate Text is fine for my simple documents.
It allows me to bring in pictures from Draw.  For more complex
documents, I use Lotus Manuscript.  Word, WordPerfect, and WordStar
can't handle it.  Between the two, I have everything I need.

My system fits me just fine and that's all the explanation I need to do.

-- 
Brian Evans			    "In any formula, constants (especially
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