> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Al Kossow > Sent: 06 May 2016 19:48 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: HP breakup... Website & ftp being trashed ... save what you can > > > > On 5/6/16 11:44 AM, Al Kossow wrote: > > > Either I missed it when I wget'ed it a year or two ago, but I was > > looking for Compaq Portable 486 softpaqs recently, slurped all of them > > from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/ last week, and it ended up being > > almost 2tb with a lot more earlier ones available now than the last > > time I tried it > > > > And if anyone cares, you can't create floppy images from the really old > softpaqs on modern PCs. I ended up having to shuttle an IDE disk to the > Portable 486 and run the image copy program on there
I managed to create Floppies from the IBM OS/2 disk images using DOSBOX. Might be worth a try with these. Dave
