Comments on: Legacy MS-DOS Licensing

By: flame

flame — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:34:27 +0000

We ended up transferring the license from the old machine to the new virtual machine, though the freeDOS looks promising and I might look to use it for a future project involving past technology…
The old machine was taken apart and most of the pieces went to recycling, This system still had a 360k5 1/4 floppy disk drive which is one of the parts I kept. The retired floppy drive now sits in a place of honor on a shelf next to an old 44M SyQuest drive and a couple of Bernoulli disks.
Thank you to all who helped.
Flame

By: kevinbeaver

kevinbeaver — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:52:55 +0000

I’ve had the need to use old versions of DOS like this as well…I’m pretty sure the license terms don’t expire just because it’s old. It looks like there’s a lot of DOS for sale on ebay.

By: ledlincoln

ledlincoln — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:29:35 +0000

Oops, someone already put the link up above (and did it better than I).

By: ledlincoln

ledlincoln — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:28:01 +0000

Check http://www.freedos.org