A QL Toady reader has sent me the following question. Anyone know the
answer?
I have a laptop PC running Windows Me. I would like to run QLay (or
possibly Qemulator) on it, but it does not have a floppy disk drive.
It does have a USB port, and my local PC World store has Packard Bell
USB Floppy
I dunno about Q-Emulator or QLay (I have only had limited use of these,
just playing about mainly) But QPC will definitely work with it - I've used
a similar USB device on my PC in work and QPC saw it no problem. As you say
- once the PC sees it as A: drive, QPC just mapped onto it. Same with
BTW, I'm still around. Between work and entering my second year as
President of a local non-profit Museum, I'm been too busy for QL
things.
Still follow the list though.
Tim Swenson
Good to hear you're still around, Tim.
And thanks to everyone who helped with replies on RFC and RC.
--
Dilwyn jested :
The USB pocket drives like those would be great for someone like
Norman who does most of his QLing in his lunchbreak in work, that way
he would never lose/corrupt his zip disks again and he could take his
work to and from home on his keyring! As you say, a 64MB QXL.WIN on a
The keyring thingys are getting cheaper all the time. They made 8Mb
ones as the smallest when I got mine about a year ago, but now 32Mb seems
to be the smallest as the prices have come down so much that an 8Mb one is
no longer viable. A 32Mb one costs about the same as a similar sized CF
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
A couple of questions for the more Linux-minded members of this list,
to help me with a QL conversion:
1. What is an RFC?
The Request For Comment mechanism does indeed date from the very start
of networking. You can probably look up the history in detail somewhere,
but it
On Friday, June 27, 2003 12:09 PM , Dilwyn Jones wrote:
I have a laptop PC running Windows Me. I would like to run QLay (or
possibly Qemulator) on it, but it does not have a floppy disk drive.
It does have a USB port, and my local PC World store has Packard Bell
USB Floppy disks drives at
Dilwyn Jones wrote:
A QL Toady reader has sent me the following question. Anyone know the
answer?
I have a laptop PC running Windows Me. I would like to run QLay (or
possibly Qemulator) on it, but it does not have a floppy disk drive.
It does have a USB port, and my local PC World store
