It has been a long while since I have updated this here.. I have been dealing with some health issues, and I look forward to finishing my recovery, as I am not allowed to lift anything over 5kg right now, so that rules out most of my retro gear.
I picked up a Tandy 1000RL-HD a few weeks back, as it is pretty close to the old Panasonic FX-1650 that I had as a kid. The hard drive still works, and it boots to Deskmate just fine. I do not have a CGA compatible monitor, but I did have an Oak VGA card that has a jumper selectable 8-bit ISA mode. My Tandy keyboard does not seem to have the switch installed to convert to XT mode, so it does not work on this computer. I was going to try to open it up and install the switch, but then my health issues came up.
Other than that, I have come to the conclusion that I have far too much retro computer gear right now. I am going to be sorting through it all and sticking a lot of it up on eBay here pretty soon. I sold a few pieces a few months back, but I really need to do a serious purge. I just need to really decide what I want to keep.
In the end, I think I will have this Tandy 8086 DOS machine, the Compaq 486 Windows 3.11 machine, a Pentium III 1.13ghz Windows 98 machine, and an Athlon XP Windows XP machine. I also have the iBook G3, Panasonic CF-170 and the Compaq Pentium 133 laptops. Those should cover all of my gaming needs.