29 Mar
2011
29 Mar
'11
9:13 p.m.
On 3/29/2011 12:52 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 29 Mar 2011 at 11:07, steve shumaker wrote:
Your original comment about Seattle Computer triggered a vague recollection so
I went looking through the material and found a Seattle Computers Glossy Brochure from Dec
1983 that advertises business grade S100 systems with the 8086 CPU and MS-DOS 2.0. If I
can get Google to cooperate, I'll push scans up to Picasa and post the link.
Steve
Helbig didn't say much about the relationship
although I got the
impression this was not something that Godbout was involved in - they
were simply using their technology. Buried in the disks I have here
are a stack of 5 1/4 floppies labeled "MS-DOS 2.0 OEM Support" No
idea the contents. (He included over 200 pieces of media - mostly 8"-
and I've yet to open any of them.") Much of the documentation appears
to be a mix of MSDOS and CPRO BIOS listings. The company was "G and
G Engineering"
I'll have to see if I have anything on it, but this would more likely
be from the PC-DOS 1.1 era. I still have my notes from working with
the OEM MS-DOS 2.0 kit; it was really the first version that had
decent OEM documentation--compared to 1.25, it was wonderful. What's
particularly funny is the stated goal of eventually merging DOS and
Xenix. File that one with Microsoft OS/2 3.0...
--Chuck