18 Sep
1998
18 Sep
'98
7:50 a.m.
Marvin <marvin(a)rain.org> wrote:
I've been looking for a number of years now for
DOS 1.0. The best I have
been able to do was to buy a still shrinkwarpped DOS 1.1 a few years ago.
Does anyone know/remember how long DOS 1.0 was actually out before it was
upgraded?
Not very long. Most people have forgotten that IBM DOS 1.0 only supported the
160K disk format (single-sided, 8 sectors per track). In fact, most people
have forgotten that there even *was* a 160K format, but the DOS FORMAT command
supports it to this day, along with the 180K and 320K formats, and the much
better known 360K format.