Wasn't that Columbia (or maybe Corona) that did that? I remember someone
wanting to buy one to run XENIX just because you didn't have to pay for DOS
when you bought it.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "ajp166" <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: DOS Jumper
> Back in the mid to later 80s when one of the vendors was selling PCs
> without MSdos they were forced by MS to make the system so it
> could not run dos. I think it was running SCO unix or Novell.
>
> I'm fuzzy on the details as during that time frame PCs, DOS
> and their ilk were not on my radar.
>
> Allison
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 7:49 PM
> Subject: DOS Jumper
>
>
> >
> >
> >ajp166 wrote:
> >>
> >> Those that don't remember the PC cloes with he "DOS jumper" would
> argue
> >> that Billy was a good boy. Some of us remember!
> >
> >I don't recall a "DOS jumper", at least by that name. What is it?
> >
>
>
Received on Fri Jan 12 2001 - 21:48:30 GMT