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   Daryl Stout to Joe Delahaye   
   All Windows 10 users   
   21 Nov 15 05:17:00   
   
   Joe,   
      
   JD>What if you have only one drive with one partition?     
      
     Reminds me of a setup I encountered a few years ago. A BBS user had found a   
   unique computer setup. It had a 3.5" and a 5.25" inch floppy drive on it, but   
   no hard drive...as well as a monochrome green monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse.   
      
     Well, I used the Windows 98 CD to create a 3.5" startup disk for him, and to   
   load a copy of COMMAND.COM -- then on a 5.25" disk, I put the terminal version   
   of GT Power BBS software on it. So, with just that, he was able to logon to my   
   BBS (dial-up only at the time), and play the doors, read messages, etc. So, he   
   was using a computer with basically no OS and no hard drive, but accessing a   
   BBS with it. :)   
      
     I'm now running a hybrid system of sorts. VADV-PHP (Virtual Advanced) is the   
   website interface, with GT Power 20 now on the telnet side.   
      
   Daryl   
      
   ---   
    * OLX 1.53 * 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2.   
    * PDQWK 2.53 #5   
      
      
   --- GTMail 1.26    
    * Origin: The Thunderbolt BBS - wx1der.dyndns.org - GT Power 20 (1:19/33.0)   

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