What op sys and version do you want to run on it? Windows changed the way drivers work after Xp so it may be an isshe. That made replacement of older PCs that controlled equipment like xray, MRI, and industrial stuff impossible as the manufacturers couldn’t write new drivers — lost the knowledge thru mergers and retirements/buyouts.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 24, 2023, at 07:25, Joshua Rice via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Interestingly, i'm looking at procuring a reasonably vintage laptop for a > computer festival i'm planning to attend soon. It seems that many laptops of > the PIII era use SuperIO chips, but i'm rather confused as to how "low level" > they get. > > > > Some of you may remember my RCA MS2000. I've had great luck writing bootable > images from a PIII machine with a "standard" 1.44mb floppy drive, despite the > format being 70-track, SSDD. The machine's floppy controller uses a bona-fide > NEC uPD765 though, so no surprises it worked fine... ( Here's a video of me > playing around with it for the curious... > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdKkaf-77dE ) > > > > I'm really asking if anyone has any recommendations for a laptop that is > reasonably powerful, fairly modern (has USB), but also has a > direct-connection floppy drive that can do device level shenanigans (via > Omniflop) to allow me to write floppies in obscure formats. Bonus points if > it can use it with a serial terminal emulator, and run the Emma02 RCA 1802 > emulator on it as well. I, like Tony, don't drive, so i need something > compact and portable for public transport travel. > > > > I've been eyeing up a Dell Latitude C series (C600?) But the whole > SuperIO-over-parallel thing makes me think there might be proprietary drivers > involved, preventing device level access of the floppy drives... Hopefully > some of you might be a bit more wise. > > > > Cheers, Josh
