28 Feb
2013
28 Feb
'13
8:50 p.m.
How would
such late versions of Windoze wind up on the other 5150?
Wonders never cease.
The other 5150 could run a CD-ROM drive. There are a few complications to
doing so, such as needing DOS 3.10 or above if you don't want to write
your own CD-ROM drivers, etc. I've never put a DVD drive on a 5150, but
I don't think that the differences would matter much. 
1 Mar
1 Mar
10:36 a.m.
On 2/28/2013 6:50 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
Better yet, let's test the premise in a non anachronistic real world way by
transferring Winders 7 to o roughly 126,000 cassette tapes. You can start w/o me. I'll
join in in about 6 months.
My advice is to get the fastest 8088 you can find.
I'd use a COCO II computer. You don't need to run the software. :)
Ben.
How
would such late versions of Windoze wind up on the other 5150?
Wonders never cease.
The other 5150 could run a CD-ROM drive. There are a few complications to
doing so, such as needing DOS 3.10 or above if you don't want to write
your own CD-ROM drivers, etc. I've never put a DVD drive on a 5150, but
I don't think that the differences would matter much. 
12:14 p.m.
>>> How would such late versions of Windoze
wind up on the other 5150?
>>> Wonders never cease.
>> The other 5150 could run a CD-ROM drive. There are a few complications to
>> doing so, such as needing DOS 3.10 or above if you don't want to write
>> your own CD-ROM drivers, etc. I've never put a DVD drive on a 5150, but
>> I don't think that the differences would matter much.
> Better yet, let's test the premise in a non anachronistic real world
> way by transferring Winders 7 to o roughly 126,000 cassette tapes. You
> can start w/o me. I'll join in in about 6 months.
If you happen to have 126,000 cassette tapes, we know somebody who is
looking for [preferably unopened] quantities of tapes
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, ben wrote:
I'd use a COCO II computer. You don't need to
run the software. :)
Can the Coco cassette port communicate with the 5150 cassette port?
Or the TRS80 model 1/3?
I no longer have enough cards to hold an image of Windoze, nor enough
storage space, nor access to a suitable punch :-(
If it were possible to run Windoze8 on a 5150 (it isn't), it would take
more than 6 months to boot.
12:42 p.m.
On 3/1/2013 10:14 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
Offhand I would say yes. Now 20+ years later I don't have any paper
docs of the COCO II and the XT.
>>>
How would such late versions of Windoze wind up on the other 5150?
>>> Wonders never cease.
>> The other 5150 could run a CD-ROM drive. There are a few complications to
>> doing so, such as needing DOS 3.10 or above if you don't want to write
>> your own CD-ROM drivers, etc. I've never put a DVD drive on a 5150, but
>> I don't think that the differences would matter much.
> Better yet, let's test the premise in a non anachronistic real world
> way by transferring Winders 7 to o roughly 126,000 cassette tapes. You
> can start w/o me. I'll join in in about 6 months.
If you happen to have 126,000 cassette tapes, we know somebody who is
looking for [preferably unopened] quantities of tapes
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, ben wrote:
I'd use a COCO II computer. You don't
need to run the software. :)
Can the Coco cassette port communicate with the 5150 cassette port?
Or the TRS80 model 1/3?
I no longer have enough cards to hold an image of
Windoze, nor enough
storage space, nor access to a suitable punch :-(
If it were possible to run Windoze8 on a 5150 (it isn't), it would take
more than 6 months to boot.
Sadly intel chips still boot up in the 8088 memory model.
A real pain for any new OS.
Ben.
1:19 p.m.
> Can the Coco cassette port communicate with the
5150 cassette port?
> Or the TRS80 model 1/3?
On Fri, 1 Mar 2013, ben wrote:
Offhand I would say yes. Now 20+ years later I
don't have any paper
docs of the COCO II and the XT.
Actually, the XT (5160) did not have a cassette port. Only the PC
(5150). Also, the XT had 8 slots, instead of 5, although one slot had
buffering issues, so IBM plugged it up with a "free" serial card.
Sadly intel chips still boot up in the 8088 memory
model.
A real pain for any new OS.
but great for continuing with the old REAL software
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