USA 1986

The 3.5-inch floppy drive had come a good way since 80 Micro’s old editor had scoffed at an IBM portable not offering anything else less than two years before; this issue’s cover story explained how to replace one of the 5.25-inch drives in your older Tandy 1000 with the flavour of the moment. (The Tandy 1000 HX, which came with a 3.5-inch floppy drive as standard equipment, was given a positive review inside.)

USA 1986

USA 1986

The little house on this issue’s cover led into a very technical article about one of the competing schemes for pushing past “the 640K barrier” of MS-DOS, one that would work even with the 8088 microprocessor in most Tandy 1000s. Readers still holding on to their TRS-80 Model 4s got an article with a hardware hacking project to install 320K in their computers, offering five banks of memory for their eight-bit Z80s.

USA 1984

Another technical, do-it-yourself utility featured on this issue’s cover, although it focused just on those using MS-DOS computers...

USA 1984