12 Jan
2003
12 Jan
'03
12:58 p.m.
Well, I have an IBM DOS 3.30 right here. Still in its original shrinkwrap.
Just how tall are you?
-Lawrence LeMay
lemay(a)cs.umn.edu
I believe DOS 3.20 is what I was looking for. It came
as original software
for a Packard Bell 386/12T (don't remember the specific model name), and I
used the accompanying book to teach myself DOS programming -- back in
1991... The system had dual floppies (both sizes), a small hard drive, no
sound except for the system speaker, and one of the first mass production
.25 dpi monitors. I paid through the nose for the system at the time, but
I'd likely give an arm and a leg for that old DOS manual...
Cheers!
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin(a)xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 08:55 PM
Subject: Re: Old (5.25") PC software
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ed Tillman wrote:
> I dunno about these, but would anyone happen to have a copy of DOS 2.x
or
> 3.x (2.3 and/or 3.2 maybe) on 3.5 disks, nd
with the accompanying user
text
> book? Some of the information in those old
texts is still applicable,
but
can't
be found anywhere...
There ain't no sech thing as 2.3
2.xx was only available with 3.5" support in specially modified versions
for certain specific brands of machines (usually in version 2.11). Even
the disk format isn't standardized on those.
3.20 (internally it thinks that it is three point twenty, NOT two), is the
first version that includes 3.5" support (720K) without special machine
specific modifications.
2.11 and 3.31 are only available in versions that were intended for
specific machines. 'Course in most cases, the only thing that is
different is the code in MODE.COM, and sometimes FORMAT.
If you have a machine with specific peculiarities, 3.31 is the hot setup.