ScuzzBlog: Diaries July 2017
Entry 27th July 2017: Post: 2
Parrot Fashion
Hi
My 5.25" plastic disk box arrived today. To my surprise inside was a
5.25" disk with MS-DOS written on the label. So I hot footed to the
A1200 in the next room with the external 5.25" drive and discovered that
on the disk was MS-DOS v2.12 with the following files. IBMB10.COM -
IBMDOS.COM and IMOUSE.BOO. On the side is a label with a list of disks
that use to be in the box. Shame they are not there, but hey, I wasn't
expecting a disk in the box anyway.
Turns out that v2.12 was a special version written for the TI Professional
in 1983/1984 or Texas Instruments Portable Professional Computer (PPC)
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=472
All of that gleaned from reading a 5.25" disk on the humble Amiga using
an external 5.25" drive and CrossDOS.
So you see... you can read DOS based 5.25" disks on an Amiga external
drive and it really doesn't have to be an Amiga drive.
scuzz
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