I just came across a memo I sent to my coworkers in August of 1995:

DOS 6.2 and 6.22, which we have, has the following capabilities
that you might not know about:


defrag - Optimizes a disk by defragmenting its files

diskcopy - Duplicates an entire diskette

move - Moves one or more files to a different drive or
directory, and renames directories.

msav - Detects and cleans viruses found on your computer or
disk. **This is the most up-to-date virus checker we
have.

scandisk - Analyses and corrects problems with disks.

undelete - Restores one or more files.

xcopy - Copies files and subdirectories, whereas "copy" only
copies files.


The most sad part of this story is that the memo is still stored on my network drive...

I thought you were going to ask a question about 6.2

Last time I used the diskcopy command I think it was a 5" disk

Yupp, I have clients that save just about every email, file & program they ever had. Some date back to the early to mid 90's. IMO, data overload.

I remember being amazed at the 4 colors of CGA graphics

Yes, and when those EGA games from Sierra came out, that was high technology. I remember going to Babbages and Electronics Boutique in the mall as a kid to check out the newest games, before going to the movies. Heh.

I forgot all about those places.

Hey, I still remember picking up a copy of Computer Shopper magazine and spending a week going through the 400+ pages of articles and ads for all the things I wanted but didn't really need and couldn't afford.

Come to think of it, it was sort of like a paper Internet (only without the porn).

Some of the PC Magazines in the late '80s to early '90s definitely had some "questionable" ads towards the end of the magazine, though!

I still use xcopy from time to time. It has proven to be a pretty useful tool over the years.

I remember when DOS added the move command. So much easier than copying and then deleting!