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> Ed,

>   Details, details, details. 

>   I had a fellow ham radio operator on my BBS years ago (when it was
> still on dial-up. At a "flea market", he found a most unusual system,
> with the following:

> 1) A 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive
> 2) A monochrome amber monitor (with complimentary burn-in ).
> 3) A keyboard and a mouse

>   What was missing?? A hard drive, and an operating system!!

>   So, I created a 3.5" floppy disk with the COMMAND.COM from
> Windows 95, and we booted up on A: (3.5") drive. Then, on the 
> B: (5.25") drive, I had the minimal setup of GTO -- GT Power,
> Terminal Only. At the time, it was on dial-up only. But, he was
> able to logon to my BBS, and play the games...from a computer
> that didn't have a hard drive or an OS!!

>   Don't give these folks ideas!! 

>   I went to the link on that HOA petition, entered my callsign,
> and clicked SEND, once the data was populated.

>   That'd work...let the computer or keyer do all the work.

>   It depends on the propagation conditions. I'm hoping they will
> get better in the winter.

> 73,

> Daryl, N5VLZ

> ... I got angry at an Italian chef, gave him a pizza my mind.
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That was a nice idea to boot from a floppy so he could read and write posts on
your BBS 

Reading about booting from floppy made me recall about the day after the
delicery of a 486DX33 DOS 5.0/WIN 3.1 desktop here, I was looking at the Files
installed on the HDD and removing some of those that I thought I would never
need to run.
When I got done I turned the power switch off and back on after waiting a bit.
NOTHING HAPPENED!

One of those Files Ithought wasn't needed was CONFIG.SYS .
Luckily I had the sense to put the 5.25" disk in the A: drive and turned the
power off and back on to get the PC running so I could Copy CONFIG.SYS from the
floppy tothe HDD.

Next, I called the builder on the L/L and told him what I did 
He laughed.
Ed
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