Mine was one of those Tandy's too.... was it one of the early ones with a CD-ROM? I had to install a new modem, soundcard and add RAM (from 4 to 28megs I think). The Harddrive was 100 Megabytes and it was originally a 25MHZ processor, lol.
Yeah that sounds about right... I got mine w/o a hdd... used the 40mg seagate out of my 386sx - My first computer, given to me (broken) by my FiL...
heh... that one was my first experience with computers. I knew absoultely *nothing*...
About 3 months later, after I took the pie recipe out of the autoexec.bat, and some ascii dribble out of the config.sys, it booted right up...
I think it was a Tandy too - it had Tandy Deskmate and Win3.0... I stayed in deskmate, and played with some office program called First Choice... I was running a painting business at the time, and learned spreadsheets in that program. One I found out how valuable it's calculations were in doing bidding takeoffs, that was it. I was well on my way to geekdom. It's hard for me to even believe I ever did a blueprint takeoff by hand... That was an exponential difference - an order of magnitude.
There was another little gizmo in that box, called Pathminder. It was a little eclectic file manager and text editor - Man, I loved that little program. It stayed in my kit all the way into XP SP2 (where everything DOS broke). Even after that, someone wrote a clone called (no lie) pms.exe, and that lasted in NTCmd all the way into Win7.
It sat in the path and started with p.bat - I still have a p.cmd in my machine to this very day - Not running Pathminder anymore, but it fires up A43, the File manager I use the most in troubleshooting...
How's that for legacy? I've been poking 'p enter' to fire up a file manager my entire technical life.