Is there anyway to legally acquire a copy of MS/PC-DOS 1.0 without paying thousands for collector grade disks?

Question

I'm for a working copy of PC/MS DOS 1.0, but a net search has yielded only refrences (no actual sale copies) to collectors paying hundreds or thousands of dollars for vintage disks. Obviously, neither MS or IBM still supports this O/S, for reasons that are entirely understandable, but MS has not relegated it to the reaIm of "abandonware" either. I am not looking for freeware, but I am not a collector--documentation, packaging, the condition of the medium are not important as long as I can somehow get the software into a 160 kb drive, it works, and the price is not outrageous. My reasons for wanting this O/S are more practical--an old but still operable 1981 PC that was seperated from its OEM software. I had a copy of DOS 2.1 that might have worked (though I am not sure about the RAM) had not the media on the 5.25 disk decayed to the point that some of the files are non-functional. Any suggestions on how this or an appropriate alternate might be obtained would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I'm not aware of any legal way other than to purchase it. ...but you can try this...http://www.freedos.org/

Answer 2

try limewire or torrents search good luck