I have an old fujitsu laptop with Win95. But some of the keys produce a=20
number instead of the letter so I cannot use it for DOS.  I am thinking I=20
might have to build a small DOS computer.  As I recall Dos has drivers for=
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VGA.  That is good enough for BASIC, which is what I want to run.  I also=20
want to run INTEL Basic.


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From: "Michael Watterson" <mike@radioway.org>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: OT DOS


>  On 31/08/2010 16:27, Rich wrote:
>> Can I download DOS and BASIC to a Zip drive and run both from the zip=20
>> drive?
> Yes,
>
> assuming your computer is reasonably DOS compatible in its BIOS and can
> select a Zip drive (or USB) as a boot device.
>
> My laptop was made several months before USB boot option common on DELL
> Bios, though for USB Linux I made a 1.44 Floppy with tiny Linux
> bootstrap and USB driver that can boot the USB stick.
>
> I can boot from CD, but a Read-only FS isn't too useful for DOS + BASIC.
>
> My older laptop is Multiboot: DOS 6.22, Win3.11 WG, DOS 7, Win98, (once
> had NT4.0 also) Win2000 and Ubuntu, but installing in that order is the
> secret to doing it easily.
>
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