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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Dear Bill Gates, ...
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.121501.12819@news.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 29 Jun 91 17:14:49 GMT
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s64421@zeus.usq.EDU.AU (house ron) <s64421.678111933@zeus> :
| 
| I have just bought a 2nd hand PC.  It is a 'no-name' el cheapo, and I
| got it from a bloke whose honesty I wouldn't vouch for.  It is loaded
| with DOS.

Another common scenario:  I purchase a case, a power supply, a motherboard,
a disk controller, a disk (...a display card, a monitor, a keyboard...).

How is this machine ever to get an initial legal copy of MS-DOS on it?