Thank you. I'm pleased that there is stillsome interest.
There might be some typos in that. So, I'd especially be grateful if
Chuck or ARD, or anybody else, let me know what could be fixed or improved.
None of the content is current.
It's mostly just a recap off of the top of my head of
LOT'S OF GOOD INFORMATION HERE!
I am keeping this one Fred, and thank you.
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Subject: Distribution floppies (Was:
The PDP-11, VT100, Flyer/Video Toaster and some of the Macs have found homes,
but there are still some items left and a couple more I added. These will be
going to the recycler soon unless they are spoken for (all free to good
homes). I may be adding some others, too. As before items are at
My recollection of the DMF Microsoft period was that if you purchased a
retail MS product using the DMF format and couldn't get it read on your
system, a call to MS would result in a standard format copy being shipped.
On Sun, 25 Jul 2021, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
It's my understanding
On 7/24/21 10:26 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
My recollection of the DMF Microsoft period was that if you purchased
a retail MS product using the DMF format and couldn't get it read
on your system, a call to MS would result in a standard format copy
being shipped.
It's my understanding
On 7/21/21 11:27 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 7/21/21 8:19 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
IIRC the original capacity ceiling on IDE was 504MB or something, so I
think the capacity of a CD (~650MB) would make a strictly IDE CD drive
impossible...?
I can't think of anything other
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021, 6:43 AM Chris Zach via cctalk
wrote:
> Read that Personal Systems magazine from 1992 that was recently posted
> and enjoyed the article on the PS/2 295 system. I never heard about that
> one, the biggest PS/2's I worked on were the 95 systems with 486
> processors back at
Read that Personal Systems magazine from 1992 that was recently posted
and enjoyed the article on the PS/2 295 system. I never heard about that
one, the biggest PS/2's I worked on were the 95 systems with 486
processors back at Covington.
One thing that popped out: The 295 was a
