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Bad idea: boot a diskless (no floppy or HD) 5150 into DOS.
How? No, not the cassette port. The only other port. The keyboard!
We make a PC/XT protocol keyboard that writes a small stub and then copies DOS into RAM (with a ramdisk, natch) through the keyboard port.
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