13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
11:44 a.m.
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:58 AM PST Pete Plank wrote:
On Feb 13, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Scott Quinn <saquinn624 at aol.com> wrote:
You feel it's necessary to have an 8088 to do this? Can you tell us which specific
components you use.
For those with old clones, what do you use them
for, or is it just mostly nostalgia?
I keep one for writing out disk images to 8" drives.
Pete 
13 Feb
13 Feb
12:27 p.m.
On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Chris Tofu <rampaginggreenhulk at yahoo.com> wrote:
You feel it's necessary to have an 8088 to do this? Can you tell us which specific
components you use.
It has a controller that supports the SD formats I needed, but I don't recall the
specifics. The machine is currently in storage but I do plan on setting it up again soon.
Pete
4:24 p.m.
> For those
with old clones, what do you use them for, or is it just
> mostly nostalgia?
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 10:58 AM PST Pete Plank wrote:
>I keep one for writing out disk images to 8" drives. You feel it's necessary to have an 8088 to do
this? Can you tell us
which specific components you use.
[Thank yuou for bottom posting. It shows a willingness and ability to
think and adapt to the ettiquettes of others]
I'm not Pete, but, . . .
the 8088 is not the necessary part.
BUT, it IS more convenient to NOT have the CMOS to be set (you can try
setting it as "1.2M", which will work for most, but not all, of the things
that you would want to use an 8" for, OR you can use MORE software to talk
more directly to the hardware. The earlier (pre-AT) BIOS simply reduces
slightly the amount of stuff that you have to get out of your way to deal
with the drive.
There is very little that the 5160 can do that the 5170 CAN'T do, but the
5160 has less crap in the way.
Sometimes there are absurd artificial and arbitrary limitations.
For example, the controller for the Cordata (Corona Data Systems) laser
printer comes with software that checks processor and REFUSES to run with
80286.
The stock 5160 supports 4 floppy drives. (two internal, two on DC37)
The stock 5170 supports 2 floppy drives.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
14 Feb
14 Feb
2:17 p.m.
There is very little that the 5160 can do that the
5170 CAN'T do, but the
5160 has less crap in the way.
I seem to remember that the 5161 expansion cabinet would only work on the
5150 and 5160 machines. So if you need a lit of slots (perhaps of
lab-tope I/O cards) you might not be able to sue a 5170
-tony
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