9 Jan
2003
9 Jan
'03
6:17 p.m.
Jim Strickland wrote:
Remember that the Amstrad ppc640 is a PC XT clone with
double density
(not high density) floppy drives. It should boot any old version of
DOS after about 3.3, so long as it's on the proper floppy. These
things can be tricky to find these days though. If you can still
download DR.DOS 7, I know that works, since I've used it on mine.
Otherwise I'd be tempted to try FreeDOS. I'm in the same position,
though, I don't have any way of making low density 3.5 inch boot disks
for PCs anymore (unless I get busy and put my old PC back together).
I've used
a PPC640 before - the drive will read 3.5" HD disks if you
cover
the density select hole on the disk, reformat it to 720k and then SYS C:
A:
it. MSDOS 5 works great on PPCs. DR-DOS 7 works on anything :-)
I believe this is the IBM ftp site:
ftp://204.146.167.81/pub/pccbbs/refdisks/