"History" of computing (was: Great new addition to collection

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Fri Jul 13 21:27:13 2001

On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> At Lincoln's request, I did some stopwatch tests on PC-DOS 1.00 in
> 5150 in terms of time to boot, etc.
> It was at the same time as a thread during the middle of March here about
> whether there had ever been a 1.00 by people who didn't get into the PC
> until later.
> YOU started that thread with:
> > Is it true that there was never a release of PC/MS-DOS 1.0, and that the
> > first production release was 1.10?

Yes, I remember now. This was, in fact, prompted by Lincoln sending me a
message asking this question :)

> Then I sold my original of 1.00 to somebody on the list.

Score! :)

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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