30 May
2023
30 May
'23
4:37 p.m.
On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM philip--- via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I wasn't trying to solve the whole problem at once!
A lot of people have recommended "sneakernet" to connect your modern
That's an expression which always sounds odd to me. The footwear known
as 'sneakers' across the Pond is, I believe, called 'trainers' here.
But (a) on this list I'll use 'trainer' to refer to one of the
microprocessor evaluation/learning systems and (b) I've never owned
such shoes and nor do I intend to.
laptop to an older machine with drives hung off it. I
was wondering
about the latter half of this - what might be the older machine with the
drives. I think that AT would be a good choice.
Actually, I think the AT is not the best choice for this. I don't
think the disk controller I currently have in the machine handles
single density correctly. And of course it only supports 2 drives,
currently 80 cylinder 5.25 and 3.5" ones.
A better choice might be my TRS-80 model 4. That disk controller
certainly handles single density, although it won't handle the high
density data rates used on 1.2M and 1.4M PC disks and 8" floppies.
It's also a Western Digital controller chip which I much prefer to
Intel-esque ones.I do have a hard disk on it too -- a 3rd party unit
badged 'Cumana'
In which case we can move on to the former - what you are physically
carrying from machine to machine.
I still think a SCSI drive is a possibility. You seem to be considering
an SD card. Some have suggested CF cards, with which I'm not familiar.
For that matter, whatever became of PCMCIA cards? How big did they get
anyway?
The size shouldn't be a problem Assuming I am transfering a disk image
to write to a floppy, it shouldn't be much larger than the capacity of
that floppy. 1MByte should be enough.
-tony