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Author Topic: Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection?  (Read 2371 times)

Offline ThaDood

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Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection?
« on: March 19, 2024, 1712 UTC »
I really suck in software, and always have. However, even I thought this interesting. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/this-long-lost-earliest-ms-dos-precursor-was-discovered-in-a-floppy-disk-collection/ar-AA1mwLzg?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=1705359b24564e9fa126e5fdc3a2e714&ei=38  I still remember 12" floppy disks for loading industrial CRT test machines for Toshiba in the late 1980's. I still have 5.25" floppy disks, but nothing to run those on. I do still have 3" diskettes and several DOS and WIN 3.1 softwares. How many pirate, and other station, loggings do you still have on MS-DOS?
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Re: Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection?
« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2024, 1959 UTC »
Man, MSN is so cluttered with junk and adds that I couldn't find this article and the provided URL just bounces back to msn.com.
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Re: Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection?
« Reply #2 on: March 20, 2024, 1115 UTC »
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Re: Long-lost, earliest MS-DOS precursor was discovered in a floppy disk collection?
« Reply #3 on: March 26, 2024, 1954 UTC »
Somewhere in my loft (attic for our US cousins) I have copies of CPM-86 for the Sirius-1 / Victor 9000 computer
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