Rec | OLD MS-DOS BOOT DISKS

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in my ewaste scavenging, i sometimes find people's old boot disks they kept around for emergencies. from what i can tell, you put together just enough of an MS-DOS installation for the computer to boot up again when everything else was going wrong. you feel a sense of connection to someone from 30 years ago - we're both just trying to get these things working again and hoping whatever ails our PC is within our means to fix. they seem personal, they have people's names on them, they have dates and instructions. you can tell it mattered pictured: me using some of these boot disks i found in the trash to update the BIOS of an old server motherboard

@swumbles

Apr 16, 2025

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