HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you can

[Dave Wade]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow
> Sent: 06 May 2016 19:48
> To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you
can
> 
> 
> 
> On 5/6/16 11:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> 
> > Either I missed it when I wget'ed it a year or two ago, but I was
> > looking for Compaq Portable 486 softpaqs recently, slurped all of them
> > from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/ last week, and it ended up being
> > almost 2tb with a lot more earlier ones available now than the last
> > time I tried it
> >
> 
> And if anyone cares, you can't create floppy images from the really old
> softpaqs on modern PCs. I ended up having to shuttle an IDE disk to the
> Portable 486 and run the image copy program on there

I managed to create Floppies from the IBM OS/2 disk images using DOSBOX.
Might be worth a try with these.

Dave