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MS DOS® Version 2.02 - Compaq OEM



Label used with permission of Compaq® Corporation

Boot Screen:


Current Date is Tue 1-01-1980

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Current time is 8:25:08.38

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The COMPAQ Personal Computer MS-DOS

Version 2.02



(C) Copyright COMPAQ Computer Corp. 1982, 83

(C) Copyright Microsoft 1981, 82, 83



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Package Contents:

Disk image used with permission
Compaq® Corporation
Disk 1, P/N:Rev E

Collector's notes:
As with several Compaq OEM releases, tight version sub-numbering from established major releases indicates parallel and/or specific enhancements for these releases - several versions have since emerged. Considered rare to find in complete condition.
Estimated Value: Mint-$150 VG-$100 G-$75

Vital Statistics:

Release Date: November, 1983
Disks in Set: unknown - we suspect one system disk, one reference disk
Diskette Form Factor:5.25", DSDD, 9 sectors per track
Capacity: 360k
Sector Size: 512 bytes
Disk Sides: 2



Version string (sector 1C0h, offset 1C5h)



43 3D 0D 0A 0A 54 68 65 20 43 4F 4D 50 41 51 20 ¦      The COMPAQ

50 65 72 73 6F 6E 61 6C 20 43 6F 6D 70 75 74 65 ¦ Personal Compute

72 20 4D 53 2D 44 4F 53 0D 0A 56 65 72 73 69 6F ¦ r MS-DOS  Versio

6E 20 32 2E 30 32 0D 0A 0A 28 43 29 20 43 6F 70 ¦ n 2.02   (C) Cop

79 72 69 67 68 74 20 43 4F 4D 50 41 51 20 43 6F ¦ yright COMPAQ Co

6D 70 75 74 65 72 20 43 6F 72 70 2E 20 31 39 38 ¦ mputer Corp. 198

32 2C 20 38 33 0D 0A 28 43 29 20 43 6F 70 79 72 ¦ 2, 83  (C) Copyr

69 67 68 74 20 4D 69 63 72 6F 73 6F 66 74 20 31 ¦ ight Microsoft 1

39 38 31 2C 20 38 32 2C 20 38 33 0D 0A 24 53 70 ¦ 981, 82, 83


Disk 1: Directory of A: 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 18,016 COMMAND.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,593 ANSI.SYS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 6,480 FORMAT.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 6,468 CHKDSK.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,600 SYS.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 2,122 DISKCOPY.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,850 DISKCOMP.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 2,243 COMP.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 8,096 EDLIN.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 3,028 MODE.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 5,728 FDISK.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 5,017 BACKUP.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 5,164 RESTORE.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 4,506 PRINT.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 2,308 RECOVER.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 946 ASSIGN.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 2,122 TREE.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 702 GRAPHICS.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,632 SORT.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 6,331 FIND.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 4,380 MORE.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,070 BASIC.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,068 BASICA.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 64,384 BASICA.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,649 EXE2BIN.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 42,368 LINK.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 12,171 DEBUG.COM 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 14 DEMO.BAT 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 5,364 DEMO.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 14,976 DEMO1.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 14,766 DEMO2.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 21,141 DEMO3.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 4,885 DEMO4.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 16,128 USA.DAT 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 15,821 TEST.EXE 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 384 INTEREST.BAS 11/17/1983 12:00 PM 1,306 WORDS 37 File(s) 307,827 bytes 0 Dir(s) 12,288 bytes free

MD5 Signatures:

IBMBIO.COM 52a981e59db5a83ca8f08d9570c36c98 IBMDOS.COM b8d50e4ce94131212d4ca48c4f8e8e0d COMMAND.COM f6c806bfdcc6ec878291a6cc19668607 VER command: The COMPAQ Personal Computer MS-DOS Version 2.02

Version History:

Compaq's 2.02 release of MS-DOS is a parallel release to IBM-DOS 2.10 by about a month, based on what we were able to determine from boot file examinations. This particular version has the basic DOS utility set.