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+These are the last of my DRI "original" disks.
+
+These disks do not have Factory labels, they were in-house disks.
+
+Many are development disks for MP/M-86 and contain pieces of code
+in varying degrees of debugging.  There are some boot disks for
+DRI in-house computers.  There are other disks for different projects.
+
+I used 22disk to transfer the files to DOS when possible.  22Disk
+renames CP/M .COM files to .CPM.  Four disks may be formatted for a VAX,
+they have 128 byte sectors on track 00 then change to 256 byte sectors
+with a directory on track 6.  DRI used a VAX to cross compile the PLM-86
+code.  I did not transfer the individual files from these four disks.
+
+I also used Teledisk v2.15 to create disk images of all of the disks.
+
+Some disks have deleted files that can possibly be recovered if anyone
+wants.
+
+I also scanned the disks and included the scans.
+
+Many disks had errors but none of the disks here had any errors
+transferring the files.  Most of the disks with errors had them on
+track 00 and have no effect on the directory or files :)
+
+One disk was totally unreadable but I scanned the label because it
+was labeled strangely.
+
+One is serialized (#14) which appears to be a master MP/M-86 v2.0 disk,
+it is serial number M86-000-00001.  Along with copies of the disks
+before and after it would probably be sent to an OEM such as ALTOS,
+as written on some of the labels to be copied serialized and sent out
+with the computers.
+
+The serial numbers have a simple code, using the above example M86
+stands for MP/M-86, the 000 refers to Pacific Grove, the 00001 is the
+sequence.  In a separate archive you will see a disk with serial number
+MS0-000-00001 where MS0 stands for Pascal MT+ with SPP.
+