Subj : Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? To : meirman From : Jasen Betts Date : Sat Feb 09 2002 08:59 am From: Jasen.Betts@p42.f531.n640.z3.cereal.mv.com (Jasen Betts) Subject: Re: Copy to file or directory? Help? Calling MS-Dos? Hi meirman. 07-Feb-02 21:26:20, meirman wrote to R.A.G. Seely m> From: meirman@invalid.com m> In comp.os.msdos.4dos on Fri, 08 Feb 2002 06:14:55 GMT "R.A.G. m> Seely" posted: >> >Well - this was indeed before my days but my collegue told me >>that those first PCs came with a cassette drive installed, and you >>could indeed boot > Yes, a friend of mine had one of those. I visited him at Cambridge > Mass and I think he was a grad student at the time, the first half > of 1971. In 1971 it wasn't an ibm-pc > Rather than get the very expensive casette recorder that > was made for the computer, he bought a standard casette recorder. some models of computer could easily connect to a standard tape deck. m> And he may have been using a tv for a monitor. That probably was m> so common it wasn't worthy of comment. It would have been one with m> vacuum tubes That was common into the 80s. (early ?) CGA cards had a video output (forget the technical term - but it was basically SVHS via 2 RCA sockets) that could easily be translated to a compisite or TV signal. -=> Bye <=- -- |Fidonet: Jasen Betts 3:640/531.42 | | Origin: The Cereal Port BBS (603)899-3335 199.125.78.133 (1:132/152) --- # Origin: (1:132/152.4) * Origin: Baddog BBS (1:218/903) .