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Great story. I remember those days well, I also remember finding every last byte of UMB, elaborate autoexec.bat files and figuring out IRQ assignments to get max functionality. Kids these days don't know how good they got it.



You mean how bad they got it? :D

I loved modifying CONFIG.SYS with a hex editor to translate MS-DOS 6.2 (?) boot menu.




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