Wanted: Another magazine article series

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Wed Jul 22 23:52:40 1998

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Richard A. Cini, Jr. wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Jul 1998 20:56:30, Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Does anyone have a copy of the Tim Patterson (Seattle Computer
> Products)
> >article series from Byte? I belive that it talked about DOS (...or QDOS or
> >86/DOS...). Thanks.
> >
> >>I may have the original article. What issue was it in?
>
> I don't know. Tim Shoppa mentioned the article series last week, and
> since I'm on a DOS 1.1 reverse engineering kick lately, I thought that the
> article would be appropriate.
>
> I would guess if Tim Patterson is talking about the predecessor of DOS,
> it would be in the late-79 to mid-80 range (hedging by bets a little). I
> guess that it could be as late as mid-1981 (based on the introduction of the
> 5150).
>
> Rich Cini/WUGNET <nospam_rcini_at_msn.com>
> - ClubWin/CW6
> - MCP Windows 95/Windows Networking
> - Preserver of "classic" computers
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I have an 8" SCP 86 DOS Version 1.0 disk that bears Copyright dates of
1980 & 1981 as well as an 8" MS-DOS Version 2.0 disk that bears Copyright
dates of 1979 - 1983 by Seattle Computer Products, Inc. Does that help
target the dates?
                                                 - don
 
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