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From: Jeff Hellige <jeffh_at_eleventh.com>
Date: Sun May 4 19:26:51 1997

At 07:38 PM 5/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> There is a label on the motherboard (which is huge,
>> measuring almost 2 feet square) which says "Corona Data Systems" and then
>> "200290-512" which I am guessing means it has 512K.
>
>Corona Data Systems was an early IBM-PC clone manufacturer from
>1983 or so. I thought they went out of business when IBM sued
>them big time for infringing IBM's BIOS copyright.

Sam,

        Just in case you're interested, I do have the original
Corona-specific versions of MS-DOS for their machines, both 1.25 and 2.11.
I would think you'd be able to boot it with just about any 5-1/4" boot disk
though, as I know of someone that got a new Pentium to boot with the Corona
2.11 disk, so there doesn't seem to be anything odd in the bios calls at
boot up. There do appear to be some Corona-specific utilities on them though.

        Jeff jeffh_at_eleventh.com
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