29 Jul
2007
29 Jul
'07
9:15 p.m.
Hollandia at ccountry.net wrote:
Does anyone make an interface card that will permit a
"thumb drive" to be
addressed by the classic machines?
Not that I'm aware of, but there's always the ubiquitous CF-to-IDE
adapters out there. I have one on my 5160; at VCF I saw them connected
to Apple I clones, and I've heard of them connected to TRS-80s and other
classic ilk.
Some time ago, I had a sound card on my Packard-Bell
486SX20 machine. It
plugged into the motherboard. There was no specific provision for it in the
BIOS, but the CD-ROM connected to it acted like a "D" drive from Windows
3.1. I don't remember ever trying to access it from DOS, though.
Perhaps, instead of being plugged into the motherboard, this interface could
have the hard drive's ribbon cable plugged into it.
No, don't do that. Most likely an incompatible interface (soundcard
CDROM interfaces were SCSI (if you were lucky) or proprietary (if you
weren't)).
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