So I was inspired by a friend's setup and found a local Craigslist Tandy 1000HX and picked it up today. System unit, CM-5 monitor, printer, box, manuals for $110.

I ultimately want to have 640K, IDE + CF, and serial ports on the thing. Trying to determine if I should seek / wait for "Plus" expansions for serial and IDE (did IDE ever exist as Plus tho?) or get the ISA edge converter (two) and go with small ISA cards.

Does anyone have recs for a few benchmark progs, utils, demos, etc? to get to playing around with the unit? I've only got the base 256K but do have a joystick from my CoCo 3. I have a 5x86 160 DOS build on the desk next to it, and it's on the LAN (mTCP), so I'm writing out floppies and playing around with a few things -- Tandy Christmas Demos, Thexder, this and that. Wanting to see the Tandy gfx and sound in action, etc.

I am aware of this page, btw:
http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/games.html

Any recs appreciated.

Tweets as I was getting this setup:
https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/1078380638741430272
https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/1078389699499253767
https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/1078424543595847686
https://twitter.com/blakespot/status/1078427373140361218

Thanks.

bp