Tandy 1000 TL/3 runs DeskMind to chat and render images via a Python server driving Qwen3.8-27B and Krea 2, exchanging plain text and ready-to-copy pictures over a PicoMEM 2 WiFi link.
Read the original at www.reddit.com→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...
Original headline: "Why am I like this? (Full Chat and Image generation on a 286 Tandy 1000 TL/3)"
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- Oct 1, 12:20 UTC r/LocalLLaMA lead source Why am I like this? (Full Chat and Image generation on a 286 Tandy 1000 TL/3)