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Fied some typos in the last blog post
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As I lamented in my [last blog post](/blog/2018/12/28/), finding copies of the earliest versions
of The Norton Utilities has proven to be suprisingly difficult -- virtually impossible.
of The Norton Utilities has proven to be surprisingly difficult -- virtually impossible.

The oldest version I had -- purchased on eBay late last year -- was [Norton Utilities 3.00](/disks/pcx86/tools/other/norton/3.00/),
with files dated December 7, 1984. But we know that Peter Norton began selling his utilities more than *two years*
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praised Norton Utilities for the IBM PC."

Moreover, on closer inspection of these two utilities, I noticed that they both appeared to include
decompression stubs that were similar to those used by [SpaceMaker 1.06](/disks/pcx86/tools/other/spacemaker/1.06/).
decompression stubs that were similar to those generated by [SpaceMaker 1.06](/disks/pcx86/tools/other/spacemaker/1.06/).

Similar, but different. And smaller (239 bytes vs. 260 bytes in later versions of SpaceMaker). However,
the similarities are so striking that I'd say it's pretty clear that Peter Norton *did* use an early version
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