dmccunney [20.09.2020 01:36]:
> I have feelers out to folks who also have old hardware. I suspect I
> can solve the problem by throwing money at it, and shipping the
> Seagate drives to a contractor who can extract the contents and save
> it to a USB flash drive. Once that's done, the old XT clone can go
> away. (The XT clone hasn't even been booted in 20 years, and there
> are no security concerns about anything on the drives. The XT *will
> boot - I believe I still have a compatible keyboard and I can plug a
> monitor into the VGA port. But I had to have the case open and a fan
> blowing on it the last time I booted it because another card had
> overheating problems, and even if I boot it and copy data off to 5.25"
> floppies, I have no way to read them. It predates the Internet and I
> can't connect it to my local network, nor is there anything I can call
> via a modem and upload to.)
If you have a newer computer that has a serial port, you can connect the
two via a null-modem cable.
--
Hilsen Harald
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