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From: billc%sextant@Sun.COM (Bill Courington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: MS Works on a T1000SE
Keywords: T1000SE Works
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Date: 24 Feb 90 19:25:59 GMT
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In article <564@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM> desmond@gvlv2.GVL.Unisys.COM (Ned Desmond) writes:
>After reviewing a couple of integrated software comparison articles in recent
>PC Trades (Inforword 2/5 & PC Week 1/22), I'm condidering MS Works for PC 2.0
>for use on my T1000SE.  It seems to have everything I would need (Spreadsheet
>that can transfer to/from 1-2-3, good WP with preview, OK DB, Graphics, 
>xmodem file xfr, VT100 emulation, spell check, and thesaurus).  It is all on 
>two 720K disks or one? T1000SE 1.4M disk.  

I'm a happy T1000SE/Works user.  The software comes on a bunch of 
disks with an install utility.  It will all install on one 1.44mb 
floppy, but that doesn't leave you room for much else.  I removed the 
thesaurus and dictionary and freed up ~400K.  

The T1000SE comes with a disk caching utility and it really 
speeds up Works operations like displaying menus.  But a 128K 
cache doesn't leave you much of the memory above 640K to use 
as hard drive d:.  Consequently, it's difficult to copy files...
you don't have much space on drive d: to hold something copied 
from a friend's floppy.  I end up reconfiguring out the disk 
cache for these operations, creating a bigger drive d:.  Another 
meg of memory would be nice....

On the whole, the T1000SE with Works is a very nice arrangement 
for doing what 80% of people do 80% of the time.  I think of it 
as the poor man's Portable Mac--except that it is a lot lighter.