Re: MS-DOS disk format/layout

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From: karamich
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1986 16:53

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Mr. Video writes:

>Purchase a copy of the PC-DOS Technical Reference Manual from your local IBM
>dealer.  It has all you need in there.  I have one and have used said
>information to fix problems.

Pay Big Blue MORE money for stuff it should already include with its systems!
HA!!! You've gotta be kidding! Go to a bookstore and by an independent's
book on IBM Technicalities--and for god's sake stay AWAY from Microsoft's
DOS Encyclopedia-- the thing is full of more bugs than the IBM FORTRAN compiler
Version 1.0.  Buy something like Norton's or Compute's.

By the way IBM no longer ships the BASIC manual along with its systems. Why
don't they just take out the BASIC ROM chip too!!!! (It takes up too much space
on the motherboard ya know!)

-----
Tom Karamichos
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Computing Services Office - PC Consulting Dept.

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Subject: Re: MS-DOS disk format/layout
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Date: Wed, 5-Nov-86 11:53:00 EST
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