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Originally Posted by Rusty Heap View Post
you could also boot a IBM PC off a 360K 5 1/4" floppy with only 3 files on it..........autoexec.bat, config.sys, and sys.ini
Actually, it was more than that. You had to format the disk with the /s to add the hidden operating system files.

Oh, the old old days.
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