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MS-DOS SYS command disk space requirements

This KB is taken from some old microsoft archive, mirrorred on https://jeffpar.github.io/kbarchive/kb/066/Q66530/

Back in the ancient MS-DOS days, If you did not SYS right after FDISK and FORMAT, you could well end up with a "No Room for System on Destination Disk" error.

In one case, it turned out I had to use a 4.0 MS-DOS Bootable disk with SYS to reallocate enough disk space for the OS. I do not use 4.0 otherwise because it's a memory hog, but I could then SYS from a 3.3 MS-DOS, without reformatting! Neat.

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EEPROM (and others) chip IDs

As I bought a very handy TL866 II Plus USB flash programmer to replace my old and trusted Willem parallel programmer, I noticed this newer device could check and enforce chip IDs. As I already knew, many (if not all) of my EEProm chips are fake or at least remarked. Well, as long as they do work  […]

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