28 Jun
2007
28 Jun
'07
6:44 p.m.
On 28 Jun 2007 at 17:32, Chris M wrote:
Well I guess it's a far gone conclusion that if
the
box doesn't have an IBM 5150 style BIOS, it's not
going to run DOS.
I've got a fax-capture box that hooks between a PC printer port and a
printer. It uses an 80c188, has 256K of DRAM and a 37C65-driven
1.44M floppy and, when I last looked, a PC-style BIOS. I haven't
looked to see where the INT 10H and INT 16H vectors go, but if I
could figure out how to do simple I/O via the parallel port, I
suspect that I could make it run MS-DOS of some flavor. It uses
FAT12-formatted diskettes.
Runs from a 9VAC wall wart.
Cheers,
Chuck