So install dos and the cd drivers that come with it , the rest is easy
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:35:26 -0600
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic
Nope – this is an OLD machine… No USB, no
SCSI.
What I am really needing to find are the DOS/Win95 device drivers
for the CD drive. It’s an NEC Versa 4080h.
Just so we can keep this “sorta” on topic, the
primary purpose for this laptop is to run old Motorola and other radio
programming software.
Mark – N9WYS
From:
[email protected] On Behalf Of Barry
you have several options , check if
the machine is able to load an external usb drive . if not investigate one of
the linux distro which can , perhaps puppy and boot in small form floppy , if
it has a scsi port then it's easy or you might consider installing dos
and one of the older overlays which prevelant years go when I started out .
Basucally buy the machine and let us no .. I am sure there is a simple solution
.maybe even adding a cd drive and dos drivers then load the files from there...
To: [email protected]
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:26:14 -0600
Subject: RE: [Repeater-Builder] Off Topic
Or you can try a local hamfest - there are
usually older laptops that show
up there, too... some for as little as $10 - $20!
The biggest problem I have run into so far is loading Win98 onto an older
laptop with only a floppy drive... A friend of mine picked up a laptop with
an interchangeable drive bay, and then bought a CD Drive for the laptop.
Problem is: Win95 (loaded on the machine) won't recognize the drive, even
though it IS seen and recognized by the BIOS.
We think that *IF* we can find a way to load Win98 via floppy, we can get it
to recognize the drive, but for now, the CD is unusable. Problem is, Win98
is 200+ MB... That's over 200 floppies!!! *OR* we need the Win95 device
driver for the CD drive.
Sorry for going even further off topic...
Mark - N9WYS
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> I am hoping to get an old dest top with Db-9, RS-232c working with
> my old
> Windows 3.1 software.
> This will mean taking this desk top to the repeater site, to program
> the repeater
> controller.
Get an old laptop instead. Even if you can't keep the battery alive,
it's a lot more convenient to lug an older heavy laptop around, and
then it comes with its own keyboard & monitor as a bonus. Old laptops
that will run DOS/Win 3.11 can often be found for far under $100 at
used computer shops. They're ancient and the shop doesn't want them.
Often it will cost the shop more to pay to recycle/dispose of them
properly, than to give them away to you, if you find the right junk
dealers.
> I have a USB to Db-9, RS-232c adapter w/ a cd software. If I could
> get a
> Windows AT program to work with XP.
A cheap old laptop loaded with DOS/Win 3.11/Win 98/whatever you
need... multiple boot it with multiple partitions if you like even,
that you set aside JUST for programming old radios. A bonus would be
to find a "twin" for it and image the hard drive, and have a spare.
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