30 Jul
2012
30 Jul
'12
11:20 a.m.
On 28 July 2012 14:48, Peter Van Peborgh <peter at vanpeborgh.eu> wrote:
1987 vintage. I have this one in beautiful condition,
although batteries may be tired.
Does anyone out there have a functioning system disk for its drive A? The ones I have are
duff or not the correct type of disk - difficult to tell. DOS 3.3 is the revision of DOS
required.
Returning to the original question for a moment...
What types of disk have you tried? With what OS?
If you have a machine with a 1.4MB drive, & some 1.4MB media, here is
something simple you could try:
* Get a CD image of DOS, such as:
PCDOS_2000_prc_CD.iso on
http://www.mmnt.net/db/0/0/public.dhe.ibm.com/software/svdk
(Found via http://www.drdosprojects.de/forum/drp_forum/posts/9006.html)
* Put VirtualBox on your computer
https://www.virtualbox.org/
* Install DOS in a virtual machine. You'll only need say a 250MB
virtual HD & 4MB RAM. Any machine able to run XP will handle that.
* Connect your floppy drive to your VM
* Format a spare HD diskette as 1.4MB
* Reformat it as 720KB
* SYS it
* Try the result on the 'Strad.
In theory, this should boot it...
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