To those people familiar with the MS-DOS command prompt, have you ever wondered how similar tasks are accomplished with non-PC compatible sy...

The CD-ROM format continually promised to make floppy disks obsolete.  First introduced in a usable form in 1986, the CD-ROM's 650MiB ca...

A Brief Overview of the History of Disk Drives and DOS MS-DOS assigns drive letters to disk drives, whether they are physical drives or vi...

Cassette BASIC : In 1981, when IBM released the IBM PC Model 5150, it included BASIC in ROM.  In the 5150, it was contained on four 8KB c...

In an MS-DOS system with a 386 or better processor, when it comes to configuring the OS, typically the issue is whether to load or not to lo...

The Sound Blaster cards, before the software configurable 16s and the AWE32s, are for the most part are fine if you just install them in a s...

In the text below, assume that for DOS 4.0 and lower, I am discussing IBM's PC-DOS unless otherwise noted, and for 5.0 and above, MS-DOS...

The IBM Model M Keyboard is among the best keyboards ever made.  However, technologically it has shown its age a bit, and even IBM cut a cor...