If they ran DOS on a CF chip; they could pull out the chip DOS included and send it it in. Smaller than a flopppy and less easily damaged by magnets..
cheers DS On Tue, 27 May 2014 23:14:18 -0400 dmccunney <dennis.mccun...@gmail.com> writes: > On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Matej Horvat > <matej.hor...@guest.arnes.si> wrote: > > > So the fact that DOS was used is completely irrelevant, though it > is nice > > to know it's being used. :) > > DOS pops up in odd places. In 2006, I attended LACon IV, the 54th > annual World Science Fiction Convention, held that year in Los > Angeles, CA. The Worldcon attracts about 5,000 attendees. > Registration for the event was handled in DOS. They had a batch of > ancient laptops with a 3.5" floppy drive but no HD. They booted > from > a DOS floppy, and ran DBase III. Once DBase was running, they > swapped > in a data disk where registration info was stored as people > registered. When registration got busy, they added more registrars > and handed out more old laptops. Once an hour or so, they'd do a > synchronization operation so everyone had a current copy of the > database. The registration head who set up the system had been a > programmer at Ashton-Tate back when, and "wrote some of the more > annoying stuff in DBase III". > > I was tickled. Most such conventions use networked PCs with the > database residing on a backend server, or perhaps terminals > connected > to a multi-user server running Linux. This dispensed with servers, > networks, and current PCs, using only ancient recycled hardware and > MS-DOS era software. It did the job while eliminating several > levels > of complexity and cost. I told the guy who set it all up that it > was > a perfectly valid approach, and one I would not have thought of. I > was impressed, and said so. > ______ > Dennis > https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ____________________________________________________________ > Invest in oil stocks? > Oil, Oil, Oil...is the place to be! > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3165/5385f55cf20b2755c2a2cmp01duc > ******************************************************>>>> >From Dale Sterner - MS organic chemistry http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo00975a052 *******************************************************>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
