10 Aug
2015
10 Aug
'15
8:58 a.m.
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
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10 Aug
10 Aug
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.
9:58 a.m.
On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:43 AM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
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.
I have plans to make a bracketless XTIDE card that has a 2mm notebook drive header on it
so I can use an SD card to notebook adapter I have. It?ll fit in the unused slot and let
the AST SixPakPlus continue to hang the parallel and game port off the bracket in the
back. Of course laying out a PCB to do that is a lot more work than just using a serial
connection and I don?t know when I?ll find time to get the card designed. :-)
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