I picked up a copy of Windows Me Upgrade at Goodwill because I have always been curious how bad it sucked.

But to get it to work I need to get a copy of DOS with CD support so I can install Windows 95 and then Upgrade to Me.

Where can I get DOS 6.x? My copy is corrupt.

Did you try from here ? http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;displaylang=en

MS DOS 7.1 http://msdos7.hit.bg/dosware/dos71scd.zip (ISO image)

Chris

Yes, it tried installing it to one folder on the hard drive.

I found a folder on my backup drive that has backup copies DOS 6.22 disks, but they might be corrupted as well... we'll see.

See again, MSDOS 7.1 above (ISO image)

Chris

Other useful resources (including separated files and boot disks) here: http://manmrk.net/tutorials/DOS/msdos.htm

Chris

Oops.

Thanks. I'll try it. My back-ups were corrupted.

It worked. Thank you.

you have it, cool i have all 4 dos 6.22 diskettes.

6.22 was the top version at the time... I must have them also, stored somewhere, as well as a 540 pages very well detailed book from 1994, by José Antonio Ramalho (Makron books/Mc Graw Hill).

Chris

Good grief! Going back in time. Hah! I even have a copy of Windows 1.0 here. The total OS on floppy is 1 meg. Sizable for the time, when 24 meg hard drives were considered large. How times have changed.

In 94, we had some "Prológica" systems, based on DOS, which had 5 meg Hard-Disks ! It was a huge storage amount !

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Before this, we only had "Prológica CP-500 or Prológica System 600" using 8' diskettes and a dreaded O.S. named CPM/80 !

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The Brazilian Government, at this time, has nuked all progress by reserving computers makers to "legit brazilian plants". Fortunately, we could import some "up-to-date computers" to play with.

Chris

Hmmm.... looks uncannily like a Radio Shack TRS-80 Model III......

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, with a whopping 1K of memory (I added the RAM pack which bumped this to a massive 16K) and a 2MHz Zilog Z80A processor:

ZX81

The BASIC was the first I'd ever learnt, and compared to later versions of BASIC it was very ..... well, basic. However, I used to machine to learn Z80 assembly language (which you had to write as hexadecimal machine code, converting your assember mnemonics BY HAND into hex and using a simple loader program to POKE it into memory). They were the days, working out the relative branch distances manually .... get it wrong and you'd jump into the middle of an instruction or create a tight loop that could only be sorted by pulling the plug out.

Then came the good old trusty BBC Micro, based around the 6502 processor.

BASIC on the Beeb was much better, and it had a lovely built-in assembler that allowed you to mix BASIC and assembly language at will.

The Beeb was perhaps one of the best 8-bit micros of its day.

I learnt BASIC in late 1979, because I had a Sharp(TRS80)-PC1211 from Europe, and then, a PC-1500A.

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Chris