13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
11:15 p.m.
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:49:41 +0000
Mark Firestone <pdp11_70 at retrobbs.org> wrote:
Richard wrote:
Machines of that era did not necessarily 'come' with any version
of DOS by default. My father's first IBM-PC could have been
bought with just the cassette drive, or if you wanted to buy the
floppy controller card and a drive or two, with CP/M-86, or
PC-DOS. There wasn't the sort of 'bundling' arrangement that came
into vogue later. My first copy of DOS (version 3.1) was one I
paid $80 for, which I believe at the time was the going rate for
IBM PC-DOS. I remember poreing over that manual from IBM as it
was the only documentation I had at the time for the new system
software I was learning. At that point in history you could NOT
buy MS-DOS in a retail package, but that was the standard way to
buy PC-DOS: as an optional add-on to the system.
The PC-DOS 3.3 would be a seperate invoice item. Owning the
hardware in no way implies the purchaser owned an OS to run on it.
In article <200512121013520860.18A48FB0 at
10.0.0.252>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
I've got MS-DOS and PC-DOS versions going back to 1.0 on file--including
>the really reprehensible DOS 4.0, but wherein
lies the permission to >distribute these things? .
You might enquire here about legitimate purchasable copies of
old versions of DOS: <http://www.oldsoftware.com/email.html>
I know he regularly seeks out copies of MS-DOS 6.22 for resale.
He
may have access to older versions as well. If he does, he will
send you original media, etc., not a disk copy.
I understand your position. However, the machine did come with
PC-DOS 3.3, and they own the machine. No one is trying to
pull one over on IBM and have anything that they aren't
entitled to. They just did one of those famous clean outs and
threw the disks away.
On 12/12/2005 at 4:00 PM Mark Firestone wrote:
>I don't suppose anyone has a copy of PC-DOS 3.3 they'd be
willing to
>>part with, or make disk images for me? I have to
restore an application >>on a PS/2 model 30 that requires it,
and we've lost the disks (probably >>about 10 years ago...)