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From: "Patrick Moran" <pmoran22 AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Public Buying
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:05:19 -0700
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul O. Bartlett" <bartlett AT smart DOT net>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Sunday, October 29, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: Public Buying


>     Uh, well, no.  Buried in the closet and a drawer I still have a
> Kaypro 4 (CP/M), a Radio Shack Model 100, and a Zeos PocketPC (80C88,
> MS-DOS 5 in ROM, no disk drives, but I scrambled one of the memory
> cards a bit back).

Is that Kaypro one of those with the dual processors? (8085/8086)

>     More to the point, on a table gathering dust, I have a Tandy 2500
> SX/20, one of the last machines Tandy sold under their own label.  It
> is a 386sx/20Mhz with 5MB memory (non-expandable).  I ran MS-DOS 5 on
> it, and it gave me very good service.  I was still using it until a
> little over a year ago.
>
>     It came with an original 85MB HD on it.  I bought (and paid for the
> installation of) a second HD and managed to use DOS's FDISK to create
> two partitions on it as D: and E:.  So I did accomplish at least that
> much.  If I were to try to use Partition Magic, I might have to do a
> lot of fiddling around, as the old machine has no CD-ROM drive.

For that small system Partition Magic would be an overkill. You might want
to play around with FIPS on it to get a feel for what you are doing. FIPS
will only work on FAT 16 partitions. It is shareware or freeware. You should
be able to find it at simtel. It come with most Linux distributions.

Pat



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