Re: Big Bang Theory - The Woz

[magnusfalkirk <dean.phares@gmail.com>]

On Oct 3, 3:57 pm, Michael Black <et...@ncf.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, John B. Matthews wrote:
> > In article
> > <ba5ef161-ad61-4899-848b-85d7b0eb2...@h7g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
> > Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
> >> On Oct 3, 10:10 am, Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >>> Check out Steve Wozniak and the Apple II on Big Bang episode.
>
> >> Oops!  Forgot to post the link.
>
> >>http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/video/?pid=zfNTonqbYkQUy...
>
> > Sheldon mentions the limitations of DOS 3.3 in connection with a
> > vintage 1977 Apple ][, but I think DOS 3.2 was extant at the time.
>
> I didn't quite follow that bit either.  While watching it, and I did
> watch the episode live but had forgotten Steve was going to be on it,
> it struck me that Sheldon's comment was about it being named "DOS" when
> everyone knows that Microsoft has the only DOS.  I can't remember the
> wording, but the mention of the version just seemed like Sheldon's usual
> need to be "precise".
>
>     Michael
>

I hope you're just being sarcastic about Microsoft having the only
"DOS". When I bought my first Apple II, a II+, in 1980, the operating
system that came with it was DOS 3.3 and on the Master disk had a
program to "upgrade" DOS 3.2 programs to run under DOS 3.3

Dean