Slave computers

[Mary Fisher]

I'll tell him to get out his oxy-acetylene cutting equipment :-))

have to get it through my machine then copy it to ... to what? I haven't a 5

1/4" drive :-)

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

We're likely to be later this year, a son lives in Cambridgeshire. And we're supposed to be spending bonfire night with a friend in Stevenage - that's in Hertfordshire innit?

Tempting - and he could wait that long.

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

Um, I forgot to ask. Hang on ... he hasn't the faintest idea, sorry.

Quite a few. Twenty perhaps?

Mary

[Mary Fisher]

My brain still hurts ...

I'm going to copy ALL these posts to a folder to peruse gently later :-)

Mary

[Dave Baker]

You have bonfire night already planned out months in advance?? Struth.

Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines

"How's life Norm?" "Not for the squeamish, Coach" (Cheers, 1982)

[Martin Angove]

Well, no, as I said elsewhere the original Laplink was able to copy itself across a serial (or parallel) cable from one machine to the other. Similar stuff might do the same, but I've not needed to do this recently so don't know.

Having read a previous reply that the machine in question is (basically) an XT, I'd assume it to have DOS 3.x or 4 at best. Most of the useful "built-in" utilities people have been mentioning have come with DOS 5 and (especially) 6, in which case a 3rd party utility seems like a good idea.

Hwyl!

M.

[Mary Fisher]

Our lifestyle demands very advanced forwward planning.

Except when we do things spontaneously :-)

Mary

[Mark]

big snip

moving drives - if you can't get the 5.25" drive in

Stick the floppies in the post and I'll copy them to 3.5" or even a hard drive for you for nothing save all the brain ache. ;-)

Mark S.

[The Natural Philosopher]

No, so you can't be a thick shit thieving pikey bastard can you?

:-)

[The Natural Philosopher]

Wow. Dos 2.2 probably. NICE.

3.5" floppies were just on teh way then AFAICR, so it might support one.

XMODEM will definitely work, if you can link the puters with a serial cable.

The hard disk SHOULD be installable in a modern machine allright.

[The Natural Philosopher]

cross post to cam.misc and loads of pony tailed weirdos will help you. Heck, Its not too far for me either.

[Dave Baker]

Yeah yeah, like the old one about I can be spontaneous too if you give me enough advance notice.

Dave Baker - Puma Race Engines

"How's life Norm?" "Not for the squeamish, Coach" (Cheers, 1982)

[Essjay001]

Yes I can. I have already established here that I am what is crudely called here a pikey in a thread about planning permission.

Steve R

[John Rumm]

At that age, the chances are the hard drive has a ST506 interface rather than a IDE one. I remember an old Deskpro 386/20e I used to use c.1989, that used a full height 3.5" ST506 hard drive.

So you would need to install either a HD interface card or a multi IO card and then get it to co-exist with the modern IDE interface. Just to add that final twist of complexity most ST506 interface cards were ISA and not PCI so you have better hope the new computer has a ISA slot and a spare interrupt....

[John Rumm]

Good idea!

Must admit I forgot the obvious solution....

BTW. I still have a 5.25" floppy setup here for such purposes - so again feel free to snail mail some disks and I can transfer them as well.....

In case anyone else has a similar problem:

I can access data from the following 5.25" formats (In theory anyway - years since some of the kit has been turned on!):

PC/MS DOS 360K, & 1.2Mb CP/M 86 format Commodore SDSS 170K (i.e. VIC20, C64, 128 etc) Commodore DSSD 340K (i.e. C128 / 1571 format) Plus various CP/M formats like Kaypro 2 & 4, Epson QX10, IBM 8/9 Sector, Osbourn.

[Toby]

(Un)spontaneous combustion.

[James Hart]

Recognise any of these?

[Tim Sampson]

The latter... I hope.

Tim

[John Rumm]

(good though!)

;-)

[P.A.Osborne]

Googling reveals:

the last item on the page.

Paul