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15 January 2026

14 January 2026

  • curprev 20:0920:09, 14 January 2026FrankRahman talk contribs 1,463 bytes +588 No edit summary
  • curprev 19:1819:18, 14 January 2026FrankRahman talk contribs 875 bytes +875 Created page with "From Dr David Bradley (the engineer behind the IBM BIOS): <blockquote> Stay Forever: Did you expect DOS-based clone machines to be available so soon – or weren’t you expecting them at all, since your BIOS should act as a "copy protection" mechanism? Dr. Dave: Poor planning on our part. Based on the S100 experience we should have expected clones very quickly. But that would have required us to assume that the PC would be a world changing product and we were just hopi..."