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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1923158" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>My first PC was an Amstrad 80086. It had a pair of 5 1/4” floppy drives. it came with something called Gem OS, which was a crude GUI that ran on top of DOS. I eventually added a hard card (hard drive mounted to… an ATA card was it? I then wanted to boot Gem off that hard card, but it wouldn‘t run. I wound up studying the manual; learning a bunch of DOS commands; studied some of the files on the Gem disks, which happened to be plain text; and cobbled up a BAT file that basically tricked Gem into booting off the hard card. Worked awesome! Later had a roommate ask me to try and get some program that came on 3 1/2“ floppies to install on my Amstrad, and had copied them onto 5 1/4” floppies. There were more disks as a result because the 5 1/4s couldn’t hold all the data off a single 3 1/2. Naturally the installer didn’t work, but I modified the installer files on the copies to make it work. And that, folks, was basically what got me started on tinkering and tweaking.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1923158, member: 38864"] My first PC was an Amstrad 80086. It had a pair of 5 1/4” floppy drives. it came with something called Gem OS, which was a crude GUI that ran on top of DOS. I eventually added a hard card (hard drive mounted to… an ATA card was it? I then wanted to boot Gem off that hard card, but it wouldn‘t run. I wound up studying the manual; learning a bunch of DOS commands; studied some of the files on the Gem disks, which happened to be plain text; and cobbled up a BAT file that basically tricked Gem into booting off the hard card. Worked awesome! Later had a roommate ask me to try and get some program that came on 3 1/2“ floppies to install on my Amstrad, and had copied them onto 5 1/4” floppies. There were more disks as a result because the 5 1/4s couldn’t hold all the data off a single 3 1/2. Naturally the installer didn’t work, but I modified the installer files on the copies to make it work. And that, folks, was basically what got me started on tinkering and tweaking. [/QUOTE]
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