bettablue
Veteran Member
As some of you may know, I have been impatiently awaiting the arrival of the 5150 I bought back in April. Well, it finally arrived.
The system LOOKS great, but how does it work?!?! Well, there is a small problem. I need a new DOS boot disk. There was an original diagnostic disk loaded in one of the floppy drives when the computer arrived. I wasn't expecting it to work, but I tried it any way. It loaded and works perfectly. I ran through all of the tests, and again, everything works fantastic. Same thing when I boot to BASIC.
Here's the problem: Someone gave me a copy of DOS 3.0 on a single floppy, but that disk is giving me the dreaded "bad or missing command interpreter". Since I know the computer is fine, it has to be the that diskette or just DOS is corrupted. That's also what I found when I looked up the error on the web, and in these forums. Just a bad copy of DOS. Damnit! I guess right now, all I need is a bootable floppy with DOS loaded on it.
I hate to ask, but can someone send me a single floppy diskette with DOS 1.0 or 1.1? For that matter, any free version of DOS will be fine as long as it's compatible with my 5150. Unfortunately, I currently don't have the equipment to write a new disk. Later, I will be buying a serial port card for both my 5150 and my current computer, but until then I have to at least get the computer into DOS so I can load the programs to complete those file transfers. Once I get the boot issue resolved, I'll start looking at getting the serial ports I need to connect it to my current computer.
In the meantime, I will gladly pay for a floppy disk and postage if it means I can start using my new baby. If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.
Thanks for reading.
The system LOOKS great, but how does it work?!?! Well, there is a small problem. I need a new DOS boot disk. There was an original diagnostic disk loaded in one of the floppy drives when the computer arrived. I wasn't expecting it to work, but I tried it any way. It loaded and works perfectly. I ran through all of the tests, and again, everything works fantastic. Same thing when I boot to BASIC.
Here's the problem: Someone gave me a copy of DOS 3.0 on a single floppy, but that disk is giving me the dreaded "bad or missing command interpreter". Since I know the computer is fine, it has to be the that diskette or just DOS is corrupted. That's also what I found when I looked up the error on the web, and in these forums. Just a bad copy of DOS. Damnit! I guess right now, all I need is a bootable floppy with DOS loaded on it.
I hate to ask, but can someone send me a single floppy diskette with DOS 1.0 or 1.1? For that matter, any free version of DOS will be fine as long as it's compatible with my 5150. Unfortunately, I currently don't have the equipment to write a new disk. Later, I will be buying a serial port card for both my 5150 and my current computer, but until then I have to at least get the computer into DOS so I can load the programs to complete those file transfers. Once I get the boot issue resolved, I'll start looking at getting the serial ports I need to connect it to my current computer.
In the meantime, I will gladly pay for a floppy disk and postage if it means I can start using my new baby. If you have any other ideas, I'm all ears.
Thanks for reading.