25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
4:09 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Or replace the I/O card, or, if you are lucky, it's a dual serial card
with the second chip empty or socketed. That used to be common when
serial cards were >$50 each.
> Two other ways to do it - 1) use Kermit on the serial port. Sure, 40Mb
will
> take a while to squirt out of an 8250 serial
chip (don't try rates much
Of course it's easy enough to replace the 8250 with a 16550. Desolder the
old chip and pop in the new one. Any PC floppy controller will handle 720K disks.
That's twice the
capacity of the 360K ones of course, so it might be worth doing.
If you have media, yes. My Colt has one 720K and one 360K.
Do the ZIP drivers run on an 8088? I thought that at
least some versions
didn't.
Never thought of a ZIP disk. Dunno if it'll work or not. All I have is
one internal IDE and one external SCSI. My housemates use the internal
drive to move files back and forth to the uni computer lab, and I occasionally
use the SCSI one to emergency-boot Macs (got System 7.5.3 on a ZIP).
-ethan
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