From 9f452cc80bac52d9eb9a4682187aace6a91ae7a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Parsons Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2016 09:31:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] More README fill-ins --- disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/README.md | 2 +- disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/README.md | 25 ++++++++++++++++++++ disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/README.md | 22 +---------------- 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) create mode 100644 disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/README.md diff --git a/disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/README.md b/disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/README.md index be1a4991e..1426ca11d 100644 --- a/disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/README.md +++ b/disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/README.md @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ --- layout: page title: Lotus Applications -permalink: /disks/pc/apps/lotus/ +permalink: /disks/pc/apps/lotus/123/ --- Lotus Applications diff --git a/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/README.md b/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..41b52abe4 --- /dev/null +++ b/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +--- +layout: page +title: Microsoft Chart 2.02 +permalink: /disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/2.02/ +--- + +Microsoft Chart 2.02 +--- + +NOTE: The Microsoft Chart 2.02 disk is clearly not an original distribution disk. + +The disk image contains "SPERRY Personal Computer MS-DOS 2.11 version 1.11 Copyright 1981,82,83 Microsoft Corp." +with a COMMAND.COM dated "3-16-87". It boots but then crashes when COMMAND.COM attempts to display the current date. + +COMMAND.COM appears to be loaded too high in conventional memory, because it builds the current date string above +segment 0xA000, so when it attempts to print that string, DOS finds only garbage (0xFF bytes, and no terminating $). +This suggests that either there is a mismatch between the IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM files on this disk, +or that there is something special about the BIOS found on a SPERRY computer that is critical to booting these files. + +I'm sure with further debugging we could find out one way or the other, but let's leave that for another day. It's not +clear it's really worth the effort. To start, the IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM files should be placed onto +their own MS-DOS disk image and archived appropriately. A search for the rest of the SPERRY OEM distribution files +should also be conducted. + +I would much rather post copies of original distribution disks here, but this is all we've currently got. diff --git a/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/README.md b/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/README.md index bc2aa7617..cb5af4c5f 100644 --- a/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/README.md +++ b/disks/pc/apps/microsoft/chart/README.md @@ -9,24 +9,4 @@ Microsoft Chart Demos are available for these versions of [Microsoft Chart](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_shared_tools#Graph): -* [Microsoft Chart](2.02/) - -Notes ---- - -The Microsoft Chart 2.02 disk is clearly not an original distribution disk. - -The disk image contains "SPERRY Personal Computer MS-DOS 2.11 version 1.11 Copyright 1981,82,83 Microsoft Corp." -with a COMMAND.COM dated "3-16-87". It boots but then crashes when COMMAND.COM attempts to display the current date. - -COMMAND.COM appears to be loaded too high in conventional memory, because it builds the current date string above -segment 0xA000, so when it attempts to print that string, DOS finds only garbage (0xFF bytes, and no terminating $). -This suggests that either there is a mismatch between the IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM files on this disk, -or that there is something special about the BIOS found on a SPERRY computer that is critical to booting these files. - -I'm sure with further debugging we could find out one way or the other, but let's leave that for another day. It's not -clear it's really worth the effort. To start, the IBMBIO.COM, IBMDOS.COM and COMMAND.COM files should be placed onto -their own MS-DOS disk image and archived appropriately. A search for the rest of the SPERRY OEM distribution files -should also be conducted. - -I would much rather post copies of original distribution disks here, but this is all we've currently got. +* [Microsoft Chart 2.02](2.02/)