11 Jan
2003
11 Jan
'03
4:44 p.m.
I'm looking for the MS-DOS version, (preferably with the disks intact, but
not essential...). It was paperback, nearly 2" thick, had a two-tone cover
(white over gray), and was somewhere over 300 pages in length. It had all
the instructions in the world for using a DOS system - from setting up the
autoexec/config, to working in the AT console (e.g.: modem command strings),
to all the various switches for all the internal and external DOS commands,
to programming in GWBasic. I really miss my book (I lost it in a house fire
a week before 9/11...)
That info is nearly murder to come by now days, and yet there are still
legacy systems out there in everyday business use. That's one of the
reasons I want the book. The other is that I want to setup a current day
system (AMD 1.6Ghz or higher) as a straight DOS machine for experimentation,
games and taking others back through history. DOS 6.22 would actually work,
but I really liked the older DOS better, and the "newer" versions' texts
weren't quite so insightful.
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, TX; USA
Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048
edward.tillman(a)valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman@valero.com>
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org@PEUSA On Behalf Of "John
Willis" <jwillis(a)arielusa.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:43 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: DOS 3.20
IBM PC-DOS or Micro$oft MS-DOS? I have the PC-DOS 3.20 manual.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Tillman
Sent: Sat 1/11/2003 8:36 PM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Cc:
Subject: DOS 3.20
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
versions
- C.DTF << File: C.DTF >>
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 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.