dmccunney [20.09.2020 01:36]: > I have feelers out to folks who also have old hardware. I suspect I > can solve the problem by throwing money at it, and shipping the > Seagate drives to a contractor who can extract the contents and save > it to a USB flash drive. Once that's done, the old XT clone can go > away. (The XT clone hasn't even been booted in 20 years, and there > are no security concerns about anything on the drives. The XT *will > boot - I believe I still have a compatible keyboard and I can plug a > monitor into the VGA port. But I had to have the case open and a fan > blowing on it the last time I booted it because another card had > overheating problems, and even if I boot it and copy data off to 5.25" > floppies, I have no way to read them. It predates the Internet and I > can't connect it to my local network, nor is there anything I can call > via a modem and upload to.)
If you have a newer computer that has a serial port, you can connect the two via a null-modem cable. -- Hilsen Harald _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
