On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Georg Potthast <mail...@georgpotthast.de> wrote:
> I got my brand new Samsung Tablet about three months ago. I bought a small > USB hub and connected a mouse, flash disk and keyboard to that and could use > them all with my XFDOS distro. I have a generic 7" Android tablet. It doesn't have Bluetooth, so an external keyboard must be USB. A USB->microUSB converter lets me plug in my Logitech portable keyboard and it works fine. Add a hub and I can use keyboard and mouse. Add a powered hub and I can connect my Seagate USB HD, via a freeware third party driver using NTFS3g that lets Android mount and read the NTFS file system. (The Android device must be rooted, but mine is.) The powered hub is required to support the HD - the tablet can't do it unaided. I can run a few old DOS apps on the tablet via an Android port of DOSBox. This is mostly "proof of concept". My need to do it in practice is nil. > But frankly I rather use my desktop PC instead. Under most circumstances, so do I. The Android tablet is primarily an eBook viewer, but in a pinch it can substitute for a laptop in a much smaller and lighter form factor. Lighter is good. Smaller can be a problem, as a lot of what I do really wants a larger screen. The 23" monitor on my desktop is about right. > Georg ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
