10 Jul
2014
10 Jul
'14
5:29 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Jul 2014, Derrick Meury wrote:
the only dos i ever used was ms-dos. also most
computers i ever found
used ms-dos and the fact that all computers were all over the board with
hardware configurations. some computers had onboard controllers and
audio and even on board processor and ram slots and some computers used
add on cards for everything. the other thing i find is that some add on
tape drives were never the same size as the slots that were in the
computer where some were a smaller drive with a bigger bezel and wouldnt
fit in a 5.25" slot but also were to big for a 3 1/2" slot.
There were brackets that those would go into to make them fit a 5.25"
slot. BUT, if you put it in a slot, then there wouldn't be enough slots
for the other drives. Maybe find an early 1990s "Server" case. Some of
them had room for half a dozen drives.
Or just use a regular XT case and leave the lid off. Then the power
supply, not the case becomes the limiting factor.
for a dos
computer i would go with something that has both size floppy drives, a
tape drive, maxed out ram and processor, best video card it can run,
professional sound card, and a joystick port and scsi card
A CD writer is better for backup than a tape drive (for most situations)
AND gives you a CD-ROM drive.