18 May
2023
18 May
'23
8:46 p.m.
On May 18, 2023, at 3:09 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
That would work but it doesn't need to be quite that old. My floppy-writing machine
is a Gateway Pentium machine, with Ethernet, running Linux. So when I need stuff
transferred I just scp it to that machine, then run whatever tool I need to do the
transfer (rstsflx or dd, depending on what I'm manipulating).
paul
My advice: buy an old desktop computer. Buy a
standard PC floppy drive (a dual drive if possible to give both 3.5 and 5.25 support).
Hmmm.
a modern laptop for connecting to the interwebs.
with sneaker-net of thumb drives to:
a 386 desktop running Win98SE (first version to support USB), with floppy drives.