Re: Zapping DOS, cassette to the rescue (Was annoying thread re: New group for female ATARI programmers - "ATARI Girls")

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From	John Harbl <jharbl@harbl.com>
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Subject	Re: Zapping DOS, cassette to the rescue (Was annoying thread re: New group for female ATARI programmers - "ATARI Girls")
Date	Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:06:41 -0500
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On 2/11/11 1:50 PM, Bill Garber wrote:
> 
> "Bill Kendrick" <bill@newbreedsoftware.com> wrote in message
> news:4d556bac$0$10525$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> In comp.sys.atari.8bit ricortes <ricortes@earthlink.net> wrote:
>>> Before I got Omnimon and developed better programming practices, like
>>> save before you run or compile, the cassettes saved my bacon dozens of
>>> times. I can remember getting in arguments with ROM vs. loadable
>>> binary for DOS mainly on my experience with how when everything else
>>> went south on an Atari you could always count on the ROM cassette
>>> routines to still be there after an errant pointer.
>>
>> So did you have a copy of DOS.SYS and DUP.SYS on cassette? ;)
>>
>> -- 
>> -bill!
>> Sent from my computer 
> 
> Ooh-Ooh!!!,  I did, I did.   LOL 
> Bill

I will also admit to this, and even went so far as to keep copies of
them from multiple versions of DOS.

Except for DOS3, which just flat-out blew chunks.

- J.

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