25 Sep
2003
25 Sep
'03
1:23 p.m.
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 07:16 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Yep, It has the slot, there is a place for an HD but I didn't get one.
It's some sort of compaq.
I would like
to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine
on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)
Well.... One question comes to mind, if it's a single floppy laptop (I
translate that as meaning it doesn't have a HD), does it even have a
PCMCIA
card slot? If it doesn't, does it have an bidirectional
parallel port
(isn't that called EPP?). If you have the PCMCIA slot, you'll need to
find
a card that is old enough that there was DOS support for it.
Hopefully you
can get one that includes the drivers and instructions.
Warning, setting such a thing up is not fun. The next question is,
what do
you plan on using for networking software? Such things for DOS weren't
exactly common either.
Well, fun-ness for me is defined as am I being paid to do this thing or
am I just doing cause I want to. I will probably want just some sort of
telnet on it. I could just serial port it to the Linux machine and
use a Terminal emulator of some sort I suppose.
What I would really like to do is build up a single floppy (or two
floppy)
Linux that had vi and perl or python. Classiccomp is the wrong place to
bark up that tree though.
oooh! BBS? hmmm.
Zane