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Can anyone recommend a good site for purchasing PC's pre-loaded with just DOS? Used or new---older and slower or new and faster. Thanks.
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Steve
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Steve -
Try your local PC shop (not necessarily the big "chain" stores).
There's a couple such shops here in Racine who take trade-ins; and of course, computer technology being what it is, "trade-in" is just a euphemism for "discount."
If the merchant can get a couple of bucks for these older units, I'm sure they'd be happy to set up a few screamin' 100-300 Mhz P1's or 486's with MS-DOS installed..
You might also try the classified section of the little 'shopper' newspapers you pick up at the grocery store.. seems there's a lot of folks trying to sell their old computers...
Michael Mattias
Tal Systems (retired)
Port Washington WI USA
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Steve,
If you're in the US then check out garage sales. Last time I was in Florida I saw many, many machines sitting in the driveways for sale. Even some old Commodres.
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Don
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I wish you had asked this about a week ago. I threw three 486's
in the dumpster last week because I couldn't even give them away.
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If you happen upon some boxes that you can't find any legal license of MS DOS for, check out FreeDOS from www.freedos.org. It's command.com has a lot of unix-inspired features. It is what DOS should have been back in the day.
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Steve,
Send me an email and I will let you know what I have available.
HTH,
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Gary Stout
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Gary Stout
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I've got plenty, and can get more easily.Originally posted by Steve Nelson:
Can anyone recommend a good site for purchasing PC's pre-loaded with just DOS? Used or new---older and slower or new and faster. Thanks.
How many do you want?
([email protected]) if you're interested.
I collect old pcs, my wife
says I have too many.
I say I don't have enough.
Any that could find homes would be great.
I hate to see perfectly working machines get tossed.
I'll rescue anything as long as it's still working.
And even if I can use it for parts I'll take it.
Anyone know of a warehouse I could use to store them all?
Ok, maybe not a warehouse, but you get the idea.Comment
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