3.05 / c.1992; 27 years ago ( 1992) DeskMate is a discontinued software application that provided an that competed with early versions of. It originally was made for Operating System and for their line of computers, but eventually shifted to PC, where it was developed using. Like Windows (and other competitors from the time, such as ), it was not a full operating system, requiring a separate in order to function. Although the initial PC ports would only run on Tandy's PCs (such as the ), the introduction of the true -compatible computers such as the Tandy 3000 resulted in the software later being made available for other compatibles. Some non-Tandy software used DeskMate to provide the user interface, and provided a version of the operating environment for those without it. Examples included 's The Music Studio, and a version of. Contents.
The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its RadioShack chain of stores. Tandy goes further by burning those standards into the hardware. It's an important decision, and users benefit by getting a faster, simpler, more efficient computer. When you switch on the 1000 SL, the EEPROM is set to take you to Tandy's DeskMate graphics interface, a shell for the company's integrated software program.
DeskMate 1.0 DeskMate version 1.0 was included with the original and did not work correctly on non-Tandy computers. This was mainly due to the use of the - 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). DeskMate was popular, increasing sales of the Tandy 1000 to homes and schools. DeskMate 2 By 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.
The DeskMate application would run on top of MS-DOS. The was made up of text. The applications that made up the suite were:. a basic word processor ('Text').
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a spreadsheet ('Worksheet'). a calendar. a basic database program ('Filer') The programs all fit on a 360K. 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. DeskMate was still required, as the individual programs could not be accessed directly.
DeskMate 3 DeskMate 3 added a number of interesting basic applications:. a drawing program ('Draw'). a simple digital audio editing program ('Sound'). a simple music program ('Music'), which could play music with audio samples created in Sound, used the 3-channel, which provided 22 kHz 8-bit audio.
an online service (') 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. This was the first version of DeskMate that allowed for a run-time version that could be distributed with applications. This allowed users to use DeskMate applications on their PC's even if they did not have DeskMate installed.
Professional DeskMate Tandy offered DeskMate for corporate users as an alternative to. Professional DeskMate provides a text-based GUI for DOS, with -based file-service and email extensions. WinMate This was a complete rewrite for Microsoft Windows 3.1, providing a simplified user interface and a few applications. Reception Noting that Tandy had found that Personal DeskMate increased sales of its 1000 computers, in 1988 praised Tandy's strategy for Professional DeskMate as 'brilliant: while IBM, Apple, and virtually the rest of the computing world focus almost exclusively on corporate and government business', Tandy 'responds to the basic needs of small businesses and professional offices'. References.