19 Jan
2023
19 Jan
'23
9:22 p.m.
I have had good luck with generic early Pentium systems (pre P-4) that
still have a BIOS that can handle 5 1/4" drives. Best of both worlds in
that you get he USB support too. AT the Kennett Classic museum it's a
service we offer to make disk images, we have a lot of walk in traffic to
copy old disks to a usb stick.
Bill
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:14 AM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On 1/19/2023 9:28 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Chris via cctalk wrote:
Maybe 5170 means something different to everyone else here than it does
to me (I thought it meant IBM PC AT), but GW requires a machine capable
of USB, and I think the system needs to run either a recent version of
Windows or Linux OS, or be a recent vintage MacOS (maybe a FrankenMac
would work, but still, something that will run a recent MacOS version)
Maybe the question is about ImageDisk, which the 5170 would be fine for
(I have a PII sitting here that runs it with a 1.2MB/1.44MB switchable
dual disk in a half height bay, and a 360kB head load Tec that I think I
bought from Chuck or at least someone on here (still working awesome,
BTW. OS is DOS 6.XX (whatever the newest was before v7 dual boot with
Ubuntu)
Jim
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So the ideal setup for best utilizing a GW is
what? Or does it not
matter if it's a 5150 or a Pentium4?
I would recommend 5170 (AT), to also have the 500K bps data transfer
rate of its FDC.
Newer PCs often have unnecessary complications. Many no longer even
support floppies!