I'm looking for the MS-DOS version, (preferably with the disks intact, but
not essential...). It was paperback, nearly 2" thick, had a two-tone cover
(white over gray), and was somewhere over 300 pages in length. It had all
the instructions in the world for using a DOS system - from setting up the
autoexec/config, to working in the AT console (e.g.: modem command strings),
to all the various switches for all the internal and external DOS commands,
to programming in GWBasic. I really miss my book (I lost it in a house fire
a week before 9/11...)
That info is nearly murder to come by now days, and yet there are still
legacy systems out there in everyday business use. That's one of the
reasons I want the book. The other is that I want to setup a current day
system (AMD 1.6Ghz or higher) as a straight DOS machine for experimentation,
games and taking others back through history. DOS 6.22 would actually work,
but I really liked the older DOS better, and the "newer" versions' texts
weren't quite so insightful.
Ed Tillman
Store Automation Tech Support Specialist
Valero Energy Corporation
San Antonio, TX; USA
Phone (210) 592-3110, Fax (210) 592-2048
edward.tillman_at_valero.com <mailto:edward.tillman_at_valero.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org_at_PEUSA On Behalf Of "John
> Willis" <jwillis_at_arielusa.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 11:43 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: RE: DOS 3.20
>
> IBM PC-DOS or Micro$oft MS-DOS? I have the PC-DOS 3.20 manual.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Tillman
> Sent: Sat 1/11/2003 8:36 PM
> To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> Cc:
> Subject: DOS 3.20
>
> I believe DOS 3.20 is what I was looking for. It came as original
> software
> for a Packard Bell 386/12T (don't remember the specific model name), and
> I
> used the accompanying book to teach myself DOS programming -- back in
> 1991... The system had dual floppies (both sizes), a small hard drive,
> no
> sound except for the system speaker, and one of the first mass
> production
> .25 dpi monitors. I paid through the nose for the system at the time,
> but
> I'd likely give an arm and a leg for that old DOS manual...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Ed
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
> To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 08:55 PM
> Subject: Re: Old (5.25") PC software
>
>
> > On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Ed Tillman wrote:
> > > I dunno about these, but would anyone happen to have a copy of DOS
> 2.x
> or
> > > 3.x (2.3 and/or 3.2 maybe) on 3.5 disks, nd with the accompanying
> user
> text
> > > book? Some of the information in those old texts is still
> applicable,
> but
> > > can't be found anywhere...
> >
> > There ain't no sech thing as 2.3
> >
> > 2.xx was only available with 3.5" support in specially modified
> versions
> > for certain specific brands of machines (usually in version 2.11).
> Even
> > the disk format isn't standardized on those.
> >
> > 3.20 (internally it thinks that it is three point twenty, NOT two), is
> the
> > first version that includes 3.5" support (720K) without special
> machine
> > specific modifications.
> >
> > 2.11 and 3.31 are only available in versions that were intended for
> > specific machines. 'Course in most cases, the only thing that is
> > different is the code in MODE.COM, and sometimes FORMAT.
> >
> > If you have a machine with specific peculiarities, 3.31 is the hot
> setup.
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
> - C.DTF << File: C.DTF >>
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