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    From retrogear@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 24 03:47:02 2022
    While disassembling a boot loader for ccpm I found an incoherent section of code which turned out to be an easter egg. I tried it while booting Concurrent DOS 4.1 on my IBM PC. If you tap the ? a few times while it shows 'Loading CCPM.SYS' you get a
    couple of beeps during the following message which then disappears:
    'Much of this code was brought to you by... Dean Ballard'

    It's fun discovering this stuff 40 years later.

    Larry G

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  • From Fritz@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 24 13:36:24 2022
    Am 24.01.2022 um 12:47 schrieb retrogear:
    While disassembling a boot loader for ccpm I found an incoherent section of code which turned out to be an easter egg. I tried it while booting Concurrent DOS 4.1 on my IBM PC. If you tap the ? a few times while it shows 'Loading CCPM.SYS' you get a
    couple of beeps during the following message which then disappears:
    'Much of this code was brought to you by... Dean Ballard'

    It's fun discovering this stuff 40 years later.

    Larry G

    Nice, in virtualbox it's to fast booting :-(

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  • From retrogear@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 24 16:25:40 2022
    It also works for the copy of CPM-86 v1.1 I have for the IBM PC

    Larry G

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