24 Feb
2003
24 Feb
'03
1:56 p.m.
Re:
There was a technical reference manual for PC-DOS as
well as the
technical reference manual for the hardware... I got both of them when
IBM was still selling the original PeeCees, but they were, for some
odd reason, difficult to obtain even back then (e.g., various people
at IBM denied that they existed... and if you really wanted to have
I had no problem buying them. IIRC, I got them from the same
place I got my PC: the IBM sales office a block away from where
the first Fry's would eventually open. We financed our PC with
IBM finance, and bought the absolute minimum hardware/software from
IBM, and then bought floppy drives and more memory from some guy
selling out of his living room in San Jose :)
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Stan Sieler
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