5 May
2005
5 May
'05
1:46 a.m.
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Fred Cisin wrote:
Eric is right, of course, but IBM (and particularly
some third party
IBM dealers, such as Computerland) also liked to bundle a few products
together.
Since low level format of hard drives was only available in the
"Advanced Diagnostics", if you bought a machine and OS at the same
time, IBM would gladly "install" it.
In Europe, it was fairly impossible
to get one without the OS;
most ran DOS, I believe some people ran PC/IX as well. I know
of at least four people who did, me being one.
(not to worry, it wasn't my machine.. at that time, pricing of
such machinery AND the software were liking drooling in front of
a BMW store window to me ;-)
PC-DOS 1.00 was released simultaneously with the 5150.
(8/11/1981)
Great list!
--f