Today I went through numerous old hard disks collecting dust only to discover that one or two of them were mine!
Ladies & Gentlemen, I have great pleasure to present you with GR’s Ms DOS 4.1 PC setup circa early 90s…
AUTOEXEC.BAT
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\DOS;
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6
SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E
SET SOUND=C:\VIBRA16
VERIFY ON
C:\DOS\MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /E /V /M:32
C:\MOUSE.COM
C:\VIBRA16\MIXERSET /P /Q
MODE COM1 BAUD=19 PARITY=N DATA=8 STOP=1
MODE COM2 BAUD=19 PARITY=N DATA=8 STOP=1
MODE CON: RATE=32 DELAY=1
AIM LOW
C:\DOS\SCANDISK.EXE /ALL /AUTOFIX /NOSAVE /NOSUMMARY
CD\EDL
EDL.EXE
CONFIG.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /NUMHANDLES=128 /TESTMEM:OFF /VERBOSE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM 28416 I=B000-B7FF D=64 A=16 H=128 HIGHSCAN VERBOSE
DEVICEHIGH=C:\VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1F0,14 /P:170,15 /P:1E8,12 /P:168,10
DOS=HIGH,UMB
BUFFERS=40,0
FILES=40
FCBS=1,0
STACKS=0,0
LASTDRIVE=K
SWITCHES=/F
NUMLOCK=OFF
BREAK=OFF
INSTALL=C:\AIM.EXE HIGH
I can now see that even back then I had one of the world's most perfectly setup computer systems!