The core parts of DeskMate (and DOS) were shipped in ROM on certain Tandy 1000s, allowing the computer to boot into DeskMate within a few seconds. DeskMate was still required, as the individual programs could not be accessed directly.ĭeskMate 3 added a number of interesting basic applications: With careful manipulation, it was possible to isolate the individual applications and remove the others, placing them on separate floppies to be swapped when required. The programs all fit on a 360K floppy disk. The applications that made up the suite were: The DeskMate application would run on top of MS-DOS. DeskMate 2 īy the time Personal DeskMate was released with the Tandy 1000 EX, it was a GUI that acted as a portal for many other office productivity applications.
This was mainly due to the use of the function keys - as most non-Tandy PCs either did not come with an F12 button or with one that did not act in the same way as a Tandy F12 function key (Tandy adopted F11/F12 before IBM did).ĭeskMate was popular, increasing sales of the Tandy 1000 to homes and schools. DeskMate version 1.0 was included with the original Tandy 1000 and did not work correctly on non-Tandy computers.
