Subj : Card trick
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Joe Delahaye
Date : Tue Aug 15 2017 20:15:37

  Re: Card trick
  By: Paul Quinn to Joe Delahaye on Wed Aug 16 2017 07:04:03

 PQ>>> Somewhere I have the MS-DOS 5.xx floppies, which are probably
 PQ>>> unreadable even if I did have a working 5.25" FDD. I think there
 PQ>>> may be a bootable DOS 5.xx CD but I haven't seen that since last
 PQ>>> century. :)

 JD>> Mine are 3.5", and I do also have a working 5.25" floppy drive  <G>

 PQ> Argggh! Yes, 3.5s! (Mmm... where are they?) Yes, I have a set of MS-DOS
 PQ> 6.2x 
 PQ> disks too! And WFWG 3.11 on 3.5"s! Wow! I may have lost them in one of
 PQ> our house moves. Bummer. :( I do have disk .img files for them but I
 PQ> never could  get WFWG to install in a VirtualBox.

I've never tried a Virtual Box.  I ran the BBS on WFWG until 95 came out.  It
allowed me to get online a lot easier <G>

 JD>> I'd rather have a Hard disk then a Floppy??

 PQ> That is a good comeback. Thank you.

I'm paraphrasing because I could not remember the exact wording.


Joe
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