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Article #14636

Re: Dos 2.0

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From: Charles Blair
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1986 14:49
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In article <7411@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> sanford@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (the WAR
LORD) writes:
>
>Well EXCUSE ME FOR ASKING for a copy of Ibm DOS 2.0.
>
>For all those people who are concerned about software piracy,
>I happened to have purchase Dos 2.0, as well as Dos 3.1, but
>as fragil as floppy disks are, my Dos 2.0 original was destroyed,
>so in order to save some time (4 to 6 weeks to be exact) until I
>received a new one from IBM, I would have liked to continue my work.
> [...]

The moral of this story would then seem to be ...

                  MAKE BACKUPS !!!

(PC-DOS isn't copy-protected.)




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From: cjdb@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Charles Blair)
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Subject: Re: Dos 2.0
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 09:49:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  3 09:49:07 1986
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