Old DOS on topic yet?

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Fri Sep 26 15:28:32 2003

Should be " People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Abbreviations "
Acronyms are abbreviations that are pronounceable as a word - e.g. DOS .
Sorry to be so pedantic , I'll go away and get a life.

Geoff.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 1:38 AM
Subject: Re: Old DOS on topic yet?


> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
> > I would like to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine
> > on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
> > a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)
>
> The Poqet computer came out just over ten years ago. It used two memory
> cards that were PCMCIA, but before the official PCMCIA standard was
> developed. Does anybody know offhand exactly when the PCMCIA standard
> came about?
>
> PCMCIA = "People Can't memorize Computer Industry Acronyms"
>
>
> The Toshiba 1100, and the Atari Portfolio wer out about that time, and
> like the Poqet, they had versions of DOS in ROM. (The Portfolio was a
> wannabe, Toshiba and Poqet were MS-DOS)
>
>
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