5 Feb
2010
5 Feb
'10
11:40 p.m.
A number of DTR-1s have been showing up on eBay recently (cheap) so I
decided to snag one. (I really wanted one when they were new but my
salary as a 15 year old prevented such a thing from happening...)
As an additional aside, it's one of few devices that used the HP
Kittyhawk drive (a 1.3" 40mb drive). Quite a marvel of engineering in
1993...
Anyway, the specimen I obtained works fine (need to rebuild the
battery) but lacks the external floppy drive. So my only real option
for getting software on the machine is over the serial port, which is
a a bit annoying (and also precludes installing a new OS on it..)
Anyone have any spares?
Thanks,
Josh