10 Jun
2009
10 Jun
'09
11:25 p.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jun 9, 2009, at 2:11 AM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I have a DOS in tan. I have a BASIC in pink, and a BASIC in dark brown.
I suspect age may have a part to play.
Yours, or the manuals'? ;)
Ta-Dah! We have a winner. (chuckling). However, IBM's ROM BASIC
manual was actually very dark olive green when printed, and if one
purchased the basic program to run under DOS, THAT manual was pink.
Warren
>> I know for a fact that IBM offered p-System
for the PC, because I
>> have a copy of *IBM's* p-System and all its manuals
>> (binder-in-box) for the PC. The binders are blue. The PC-DOS
>> ones are beige/tan, if my memory serves me.
>
> One of them is pink, I forget if that's PC-DOS or BASIC, but
> probably the latter.
BASIC is definitely pink.
Hmm. I have DOS 1.1 and it's pink; the manual for
BASIC is Dark
Green-ish...