TESTFDC

[Adrian Stoness]

windows 98 on a athlon 64 shoiuld be one of the fastest windows installs
ever :)

anyhow cool rig for messing with stuff

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:16 PM, Adrian Graham via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> I’d like to thank whoever it was who added the Abit K8V Pro/Winbond
> W83627HF with its test results to the TESTFDC page for writing SSSD disks.
> I’ve been trying to get a similar setup going for a fortnight now and last
> week found this motherboard on e*ay for Not Many UK Pounds. Coupled with a
> scrap Athlon64 system from work and a scratched Windows98 CD I eventually
> got it going earlier and can now read/write single density floppies meaning
> I can archive the disks I got with my Research Machines 380Z :D
>
> Typical of my luck a contact has also found an Adaptec 1522A that he’ll
> hopefully send me too, then I’m covered for all eventualities.
>
> Now where did I put that 8” drive...
>
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