26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
1:46 p.m.
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
It's all relative and very subjective.
I just can't think of ZIP drives as being "modern". (even their current
models)
... and DOS 3.30 is "RECENT"!
> >
scrap the entire serial port copncept; hook up a zip drive, and xcopy the
> > bernoulli to a zip disk?
Sorry. I'm starting to realize my temporal
sense of PC hardware and
software is not all that accurate. I made several assumptions regarding
the use of "modern" hardware on "ancient" PCs (my idea of DOS 3.30
is
something that is too old to support Microsoft's TCP/IP drivers or ZIP
drives and whatnot) and realize now I am ignorant. Oh well, when I have time to experiment with this
stuff then I will, but
for now there's work to be done ;)
that sucks; nothing like work to get in the
way of a decent life.
howzbout:
get a small stack of MFM hard drives, (each <32M)
connect them one at a time as second hard drive (leave the case open,
don't bolt them in)
xcopy each bernoulli to a hard drive /e/s/v