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Re: [OM] While on the subject of computer safety and back-ups

Subject: Re: [OM] While on the subject of computer safety and back-ups
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:03:16 -0500
You guys are much too young.  This is the first DOS.  At least 10 years 
before there was anything even close to a personal computer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS/360>
It's also probably the DOS that Chris recalls.

Chuck Norcutt

Frank van Lindert wrote:
> Dr DOS? Concurrent DOS? QDOS (Quick and Dirty DOS? 86-DOS?
> 
> BTWQ, it might interest you that one of the first disk operating
> systems was mad by... Apple. At least according to this link
> http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/dos.htm , FWIW.
> 
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
> 
> 
> 
> Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:46:47 +0000, Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
>> Winchester drives!  It was a machine with a 20Mb Winchester on which I  
>> learned about personal computing. It was connected (in 1986/7) to a  
>> computer running an OS whose name now escapes me: a DOS but not PC DOS  
>> or MSDOS.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On 19 Dec 2008, at 01:28, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, that's cool!  I'll be waiting on your report.  Made me think  
>>> about
>>> the old IBM 3030 Winchester drives where you could remove the platters
>>> and change them out for another set.
>>>
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