![]() For some reason, and I have yet to figure out, it was about two or three times slower. When I needed to reinstall the system sometime later, DeskMate never functioned like it did out of the box. Much to my dismay, they had pre-configured it at the factory. After booting it up, I discovered the manufacturer had installed DeskMate onto a read-only partition on the harddrive. It did have serial and parallel ports which allowed you to plug-in a MODEM or printer which certainly helped later on. It had one ISA bus everything else was pretty much hardwired into the system. It was a nifty little machine with a 20 MB hard drive, built-in audio, 3 1/2-inch drive, and virtually no expansion capabilities what-so-ever. ![]() I first experienced this desktop software while using a Tandy 1000 RL machine which my father decided to go out and buy at the last minute on Christmas Eve, so I wouldn’t be disappointed.
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