Photo of Diskette Label. The "6936669" in the upper-right corner is IBM's part
number for the diskette. The words near the bottom of the label state in part:
"Version 1.10 ©Copyright IBM Corp. 1981, 1982" (Photo©Daniel B. Sedory).
Photo of Diskette Label.
The "6936669"
in the upper-right corner is IBM's
part
number for the diskette. The words near the bottom of the label state in part:
"Version
1.10 ©Copyright IBM Corp. 1981, 1982" (Photo©Daniel
B. Sedory).
IBM® Personal Computer™ DOS 1.10 was a revision of version 1.00 (see our description of the original version for general aspects of its creation).
The latest file on the diskette has a date of May 7, 1982 (see Disk Contents), however, it's the opinion of many that this simply reflects the targeted release date by IBM® since all the files have this same exact date. The software was still being distributed on 160 KiB media (rather than the 180/360 KiB diskette sizes of DOS 2.00 or later); see Tech Notes for more information on the media.
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First International Versions of IBM® Personal Computer™ DOS1 IBM®
Personal Computer™ DOS 1.10 was IBM's first Personal
Computer™ DOS version to be distributed internationally; it
required two diskettes. The product part numbers for diskettes sold
in Germany were #6936913 and #6936915 (with
the word "BEISPIEL" below it) with copyright
clauses written in German. [John
Kitching, who was an IBM
dealer in England, sent us this
picture of his unopened "D.O.S." package (still
in the original cellophane wrapper),
clearly showing his UK English version as part number
6936916. ] |
The following illustration shows how IBM® Personal Computer™ DOS version 1.10 would appear on a display screen when booting up. Since the date is optional in this version, we simply pressed the ENTER key using a default date in the BIOS of January 1st, 1980 and the system clock time as shown here:
Current date is Tue 1-01-1980 Enter new date: Current time is 18:54:00.16 Enter new time: The IBM Personal Computer DOS Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982 A>_ |
Some Command Examples while running IBM® Personal Computer™ DOS 1.10 under BOCHS:
The IBM Personal Computer DOS
Version 1.10 (C)Copyright IBM Corp 1981, 1982
A>dir *.exe
EXE2BIN EXE 1280 5-07-82 12:00p
LINK EXE 41856 5-07-82 12:00p
2 File(s)
A>dir *.com
COMMAND COM 4959 5-07-82 12:00p
FORMAT COM 3816 5-07-82 12:00p
CHKDSK COM 1720 5-07-82 12:00p
SYS COM 605 5-07-82 12:00p
DISKCOPY COM 2008 5-07-82 12:00p
DISKCOMP COM 1640 5-07-82 12:00p
COMP COM 1649 5-07-82 12:00p
MODE COM 2509 5-07-82 12:00p
EDLIN COM 2392 5-07-82 12:00p
DEBUG COM 5999 5-07-82 12:00p
BASIC COM 11392 5-07-82 12:00p
BASICA COM 16768 5-07-82 12:00p
12 File(s)
A>dir /w
COMMAND COM FORMAT COM CHKDSK COM SYS COM DISKCOPY COM
DISKCOMP COM COMP COM EXE2BIN EXE MODE COM EDLIN COM
DEBUG COM LINK EXE BASIC COM BASICA COM ART BAS
SAMPLES BAS MORTGAGE BAS COLORBAR BAS CALENDAR BAS MUSIC BAS
DONKEY BAS CIRCLE BAS PIECHART BAS SPACE BAS BALL BAS
COMM BAS
26 File(s)
A>chkdsk
160256 bytes total disk space
8704 bytes in 2 hidden files
144384 bytes in 26 user files
7168 bytes available on disk
654336 bytes total memory
641936 bytes free
A>
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This version added the /w parameter to the dir command, making it possible to view many more file names at once. The output from the chkdsk command was changed to specifically point out how many files were hidden from the user (in this case, 2). Thus, there was a total of 2 + 26 = 28 files on the version 1.10 (#6936669) distribution diskette.
1 Thanks to Wolfgang Kainz-Huber (of the ComputerMuseum München) for the data he provided about IBM's international version of PC DOS 1.10 in Germany.
NOTE: This is still a work in progress!
The following tutorial will provide both a copy of IBM Personal Computer DOS v 1.10 and teach you some things about using the free hex (and disk) editor HxD: Tutorial on extracting "Disk Images" from *.DIM Files.
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