10 Aug
2015
10 Aug
'15
9:43 a.m.
On Mon, 10 Aug 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
One of my favorite old computers to tinker with is a
rev B IBM PC. I
recently moved it out into my living room to hopefully inspire me to
mess with it more, but I still didn?t want to mess with having to put
everything on 360k floppies. With all the slots occupied I had to find
another solution for mass storage. Raspberry Pi to the rescue! I was
able to use XTIDE and a Pi to emulate a hard drive over the RS232 port.
All the details are here on my blog post:
http://www.insentricity.com/a.cl/244
Nice job.
But, why give up an entire ISA slot just to hold a DB25 and a DA15
connector? You coulda made up a Compact Flash or SD card pseudo
hard-drive that ALSO has a DE9 and DA15 connector on its bracket.
BTW, the original 5150 also had an empty ROM socket.