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[Ian Scott <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>]

> Usually it all goes well until I put in disk 2 and hit space bar and get 
> Divide overflow.    
> 
> One time while copying zimage from a: to c> (ramdisk) I got a string
> of gibberish with hearts and happy faces and the computer froze up and had 
> to be powered off and on again.  This also happened one time on the Intel 
> computer, which otherwise gets divide overflow problems.

Sounds like an error reading the disk.  I often get this on my laptop (which
is old and very fussy about floppies).

If you get read errors on binary files, all sorts of things may well go wrong.
Try some other floppy disks. They are temperamental beasts.

Ian