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		rbanffy on Jan 8, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack > When a PC first starts it's essentially an origina IBM PC from the 80s including the original text mode and built in fonts. Thanks. Now I feel dirty for touching my modern MacBook and imagining that IBM horror inside it.

slededit on Jan 9, 2018 [–]

I believe macs are UEFI only and so may not contain most of the old peripherals. This is only required for legacy BIOS booting.

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