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Installing MS-DOS in Parallels

In the fun, but mostly useless, knowledge category, tonight I loaded MS-DOS 6.22 onto Parallels. I didn't have a copy on CD, only floppies and I couldn't get Parallels to see the USB floppy, but I was able to easily make floppy disk images of the originals and mount those. Here's how: Plug in the USB floppy drive and load the floppy. You should be able to see all the files from the Mac Finder window. Start OS X's Disk Utility application. Click on the floppy and then click "New Image" in the menu bar of Disk Utility. Select
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