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To: drmorgan who wrote (1213)	6/7/1998 5:38:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1600

you can buy cpq with no OS pretty easily, or with SCO Unix, OS/2, Win95, NT, or even DOS (which is still sold to some gov't accounts). CPQ will also sell the drive unformatted or formatted for any of the above. Servers can also have Novell Netware. Consumer machines (presario) come preloaded with Win95 and a bunch of other software, maybe you are thinking about this class of machine.

To: drmorgan who wrote (1213)	6/7/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: Robert Winchell	Respond to of 1600

Obviously its not a Dell, Micron, Compaq etc. I recently bought a new Micron and checked dozens of vendors if I could buy a system without Windows. I found none. I did find a local clone shop willing to assemble a system with whatever OS I provide them. This was a clone shop, yes. I'm curious, you bought a system with a clean disk? To "burn" the PC in did they just use DOS? Or did they reformat the drive for you? They actually burned it in with DOS and Windows95, then reformatted it.