More power to ya, bro! That's the kind of thing I love to do for people.
The reference disks for AT's, PS/1's and PS/2's (and maybe some others)
are located at this ftp site and directory;
<ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/>
Here's how to get what you're looking for;
First, grab this file:
<ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/allfiles.txt> (fair warning; it's 1.4MB)
and look for the file you want. Then drop into
<ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/> and download the file. I suspect
what you're looking for is
<ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/atdg207.exe>, but the allfiles.txt
should confirm it.
After you finish there, go to
<gopher://gopher.ed.gov:70/11/software/IBM>
which has about 60 megs of older educational software programs.
Download <gopher://gopher.ed.gov:70/00/software/IBM/file>
first, since it gives the extensions of all the filenames. It seems kinda
cumbersome, but it's the only way I can find today to get to the files. Used
to be a route via ftp://ftp.ed.gov to get to the files, but couldn't find it
today. I downloaded the whole thing a long time ago as it is such a good
resource.
> From: "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I need a setup disk for an IBM Personal Computer AT. Have searched
> the web to find a download site, but to no avail. This machine does
> not have an on-board ROM for specifying the setup options and the
> hard drive type. A proprietary setup disk is required. Anyone having
> such a setup disk or anyone knowing of a download site please let me
> know. I believe that this AT is a model 5170.
>
> Some little kids, all belonging to a very large family, found this machine
> at the county dump. It was complete with a gray-scale VGA monitor and a
> keyboard. It has an MFM hard drive and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. They
> asked for my help. We plugged it in, and lo and behold, it actually worked!
> They are now happily learning DOS and running some cool programs that I
> provided for them on the two floppy disk drives.
>
> When we plugged the machine in and turned it on, the hard drive started
> whirring and spinning, and all the idiot lights flashed on in the proper
> sequence, and it counted up all its memory, 640K + 1 meg extended. However,
> we got an error messages saying "System options not specified - Run setup",
> "Press F-1 to resume". We inserted a boot disk in the A drive, pressed F-1,
> and it booted! The system does not recognize the hard drive because we
> cannot as of yet specify that it is installed and that it is of such and
> such a type, etc.
>
> I promised these kids that I would do every thing I could to set up their
> hard drive. I know how to do this, but I will need a setup disk. Please
> help!
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