28 Feb
2013
28 Feb
'13
2:55 p.m.
>Once you boot up, and go into cassette BASIC, then
you can load almost any
>age-appropriate software through the cassette port. You could even
>connect two 5150s through the cassette port and transfer files. Any idea
>how long it would take to transfer Windoze7? (Windoze 3.10 or above will
>not run on a 5150.)
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013, Chris Tofu wrote:
How would such late versions of Windoze wind up on
the other 5150?
Wonders never cease.
The other 5150 could run a CD-ROM drive. There are a few complications to
doing so, such as needing DOS 3.10 or above if you don't want to write
your own CD-ROM drivers, etc. I've never put a DVD drive on a 5150, but
I don't think that the differences would matter much.