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5 BIG BLUE DISK - The Magazine On Disk For The IBM PC 
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,    and dark characters on light background.
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MENU.TXT
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5 BIG BLUE DISK - The Magazine On Disk For The IBM PC 
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BIG BLUE DISK
3The Magazine On Disk for the IBM PC and compatibles
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~$Copyright (C) 1986 by Softdisk, Inc.
~DSome programs on this disk were compiled using Microsoft QuickBASIC.
8~KRuntime modules included are copyright (C) 1982-1986 by Microsoft Corp. and
}:are being used in accordance with their license agreement.
If you have:
_}JA: One floppy disk drive -- Run BIG BLUE DISK in drive A.  Be sure to keep
|Byour MS-DOS system disk handy; some swapping will be needed later.
|@B: Two floppy disk drives -- leave MS-DOS system disk in drive A
Q|!and run BIG BLUE DISK in drive B.
|<C: One floppy and one hard disk drive -- boot your hard disk
{!and run BIG BLUE DISK in drive A.
{.See the enclosed paper sheet for more details.
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