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Why am I like this? (Full Chat and Image generation on a 286 Tandy 1000 TL/3)

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40 year tech gap? No problem! The Tandy runs DeskMind, a native DOS program. It talks over WiFi (a PicoMEM 2 card with mTCP) to a small Python server on my PC. That server drives Qwen3.8-27B (NInfer on a 5090) and Krea 2 (ComfyUI on a 4090). The 286 never sees JSON, base64 or a PNG. It gets plain t…

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    Why am I like this? (Full Chat and Image generation on a 286 Tandy 1000 TL/3)

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