need dos 3.3 for a 286
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Name: Hi
Date: October 26, 2001 at 01:29:42 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286
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Comment: ok i got an old 286 from one of my dads co-workers for free. I know its old but i still wanna play around with it. The problem is that when i turn it on it says invalid system disk meaning that it was formatted and i need an old version of dos (3.3 would be good). I cant get a higher version that I know of that fits on 720k disks cuz thats all it can read. Could somebody tell me where I could find dos 3.3 or send it to me? I've tried some links from some of the posts on this site and if the link to the site worked the link to download dos didn't. thanks
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Name: astroraptor
Date: October 26, 2001 at 04:32:00 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286 |
Reply: (edit)Actually, DOS 6.22 is good, as I'm running it on my 286. Look a few posts down for a link to MS-DOS 6.22.
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Name: k_semler
Date: November 4, 2001 at 13:36:30 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286 |
Reply: (edit)You could go with the micro$oft DOS 3.3, or you could go with FreeDOS. FreeDOS is compatible with MS-DOS 3.0 If you want to check out this OS, go to: http://www.freedos.com
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Name: Mike
Date: November 8, 2001 at 22:19:33 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286 |
Reply: (edit)I'd go with 6.22 also. I used to run on it an old 8088 I had over here. Worked a heck of a lot better than the older versions of DOS. As for getting it onto the hard drive. This is what I did for 6.22 I installed it on another computer. I used pkzip for DOS to zip the entire DOS directory. I then used pkzip to make a disk spanning archive. (ie spread the DOS zip file over several diskettes) Then you just sys the hard drive on the 286. Pop disk 1 of your archive set in, and unzip it. Works perfectly.
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Response Number 5
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Name: b1naryaksh0n
Date: December 20, 2001 at 01:45:08 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286
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Reply: (edit)i have an oldskool AT&T 386 server and i tried using dos 6.0 and it didnt seem to werk. also those links you guys gave just dont cut it. hmmm
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Response Number 6
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Name: Ted
Date: January 10, 2002 at 12:10:29 Pacific
Subject: need dos 3.3 for a 286 |
Reply: (edit)286 friend,
I have several un-opened MS DOS 3.3 complete
with books and anything else that is was included in the original package. The box lists that it contains both sizes of floppies. I will sell for $3.00 plus actual s+h.
Ted
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