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Tandy 1400 Software

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I recently brought back a Tandy 1400LT from the dead. It's running MS-DOS 5.0 (installed on four floppies(720K)), and I use a null modem and a serial connector on my PC to transfer software. The software I find only runs about 10% of the time. The problem is that I am running a monochrome screen, with two 720K floppy drives, and no hard drive. Anyone have clue where I can find some software that might work (not games hopefully).
I know this forum is for pre-90's and Basic, but this machine came out in 1987 and I have Qbasic.exe running on it.
Any suggestions?

For the curious http://www.old-computers.com/museum/com ... t=1&c=1197
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You should peruse the vast abandonware library in the internet. Most older games and applications you may find there were written for such low-power, diskless devices. This is an example concerning productivity software.
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I don't have much to contribute in terms of software recommendations but you could do a lot worse than watch the Computer Chronicles. There are hundreds of episodes available on the Internet Archive and YouTube and they cover lots of obscure hardware and software. Here are a few episodes on laptops and portable computers from the mid/late 80s:

Portable Computers (1987):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSueEm2Cw28

Portable Computers (1985):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY7AR_xmcQ8

Laptops (1989):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRCBepOHaYk
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That is an 8080 machine, so there should be plenty of old IBM XT software out there. Maybe some language compilers,or such.
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Thank you everybody that helps me a lot!!!!!
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