On Tue, May 30, 2023 at 5:09 PM philip--- via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wasn't trying to solve the whole problem at once! > > A lot of people have recommended "sneakernet" to connect your modern
That's an expression which always sounds odd to me. The footwear known as 'sneakers' across the Pond is, I believe, called 'trainers' here. But (a) on this list I'll use 'trainer' to refer to one of the microprocessor evaluation/learning systems and (b) I've never owned such shoes and nor do I intend to. > laptop to an older machine with drives hung off it. I was wondering > about the latter half of this - what might be the older machine with the > drives. I think that AT would be a good choice. Actually, I think the AT is not the best choice for this. I don't think the disk controller I currently have in the machine handles single density correctly. And of course it only supports 2 drives, currently 80 cylinder 5.25 and 3.5" ones. A better choice might be my TRS-80 model 4. That disk controller certainly handles single density, although it won't handle the high density data rates used on 1.2M and 1.4M PC disks and 8" floppies. It's also a Western Digital controller chip which I much prefer to Intel-esque ones.I do have a hard disk on it too -- a 3rd party unit badged 'Cumana' > > In which case we can move on to the former - what you are physically > carrying from machine to machine. > > I still think a SCSI drive is a possibility. You seem to be considering > an SD card. Some have suggested CF cards, with which I'm not familiar. > For that matter, whatever became of PCMCIA cards? How big did they get > anyway? The size shouldn't be a problem Assuming I am transfering a disk image to write to a floppy, it shouldn't be much larger than the capacity of that floppy. 1MByte should be enough. -tony
