5 Aug
2014
5 Aug
'14
1:39 p.m.
Quite a printer port CD drives on Flea-Bay but perhaps more than you can
afford...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/171407686532
seems complete and reasonable price but shipper does not offer returns so I
guess its "as seen"....
Dave
G4UGM
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Derrick Meury
Sent: 05 August 2014 17:22
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
i know this old laptop has a parallel port. i did check out trying to find
a cd
rom
for the unit the original panasonic one and some
places sell it for bout
40 to
200 or so. i have thought of using a parallel optical
drive but i dont
have one
on hand sadly. maybe u might chuck
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
To: ""General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk"
<General
Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk"(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Tue, Aug 5, 2014 9:11 am
Subject: Re: windows 95 floppy
On 08/05/2014 01:30 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
port, but
Iff you DO find the floppy install disks, you
should still copy all of
them into an I386 subdirectory.
If you WANT a pain in the ass, then install from the floppies without
copying them into an I386 subdirectory!
I keep a couple of parallel-to-SCSI adapters around and a SCSI CDROM drive
for such an occasion. Works just fine. I wonder if a
parallel-to-IDE adapter would also work. The only floppy used is a
MSDOS boot floppy with the appropriate drivers. Not blindingly fast,
but not needful of endless disk swapping.
I suspect a similar setup could be done using Interlink over a serial I've never tried.
--Chuck