IBM XT upgrade

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From: Steve Chesney x4662
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:40

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At my wife's job (a church) she is obligated to use a vintage IBM XT with
a 10 meg hard disk, color display and IBM PC-DOS 2.10.  
Since she is used to our 386, it seems slow to her.  Are there any cheap and
simple upgrades that we could try to alleviate this?  I am considering:

upgrade to MS-DOS 5.0
use of a console driver like NANSI
use of a disk cache
optimize the disk (with something PC TOols Optimize)
check disk interleave and adjust (with SpinRite or PC Tools DiskFix)

Any other ideas? 
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Steve Chesney                                    slc@a2.cim.cdc.com     
Control Data Corporation                         612-482-4662 (voice)
4290 Fernwood Avenue                             612-482-4001 (fax)
Arden Hills, MN  55112

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From: slc@a2.cim.cdc.com (Steve Chesney x4662)
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Subject: IBM XT upgrade
Keywords: XT
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Date: 29 Dec 92 20:40:16 GMT
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