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Re: Case of the missing dos.
Posted By: Calvin, on host 152.163.195.189
Date: Monday, February 26, 2001, at 22:00:46
In Reply To: Re: Case of the missing dos. posted by Howard on Monday, February 26, 2001, at 12:41:23:

> > > I was just reading Steve's problems, which are somewhat beyond me, and it made me think of my own little problem. Right here on a little table next to me is an old IBM PC with 640K of memory, no hard drive, but two floppy drives. I used it for Professional Write word processing for several years prior to getting on the internet and I have stacks of files on floppies. The trouble is, I don't have a dos disk to get into the files. It uses DOS 3.0 or 3.1. Does anybody know where I can get that? I loaned that computer out for a while and it came back without that one little critical item. Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.
> > > Howard
> >
> > Howard,
> > I found a floppy at home that is version 3.30, which I assume would work with that IBM machine.
> >
> > I am looking for a serial mouse for my computer. Do you have any of those lying around anywhere?
> >
> > Calvin
>
> Calvin,
> I have several mice lying around. Uh, ...er, ...ah ...what's a serial mouse?
> Howard

Howard,
A serial mouse has a female plug for nine pins. I have only one and it only works if I push on the wire before I click the mouse. If I don't do this just right, I somehow get logged off. With some luck I will get through this message without any trouble. Send an E-mail if you want the DOS.

Calvin