Hi,
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>>
>>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card"
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/user/Druaga1/
>>
>> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop,
On 1/2/2017 12:18 PM, dmccunney wrote:
>
>> In particular, here's "Installing Windows 2000 on an SD Card":
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hDOiI0-6s
> I have Win10 and Ubuntu installed on an SSD on my desktop, and it
> speeds things up a treat.
>
> I could install Win2K to SSD, but there's
If the drive (vs. the floppy) itself remains an issue in the 486,
devices like these [0] are becoming popular. Just plugin some old USB
flash drive with the image file and you're good to go.
Gotek Floppy Drive Emulator
[0] http://a.co/48x3vtl
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 6:52 PM, dmccunney
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 8:56 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
>> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
>> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from
>>
> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
> floppy, put it on a shelf, and be able to read it again 5 years from
> now. At the time, the "gold standard" was Dysan. Floppy disk media
> varied in
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 7:09 PM, Santiago Almenara wrote:
> 2017-01-01 18:52 GMT-05:00 dmccunney :
>> That brings back memories. Back in the day, there was discussion of
>> which *brand* of floppies to use, if you wanted to write something to
>>
Excuse me, I don't want to start a flame war but
I always thought that floppy disks production were pretty dead, maybe some
obscure Chinese brand were still making them.
In the other hand, are Imation, 3M or Sony still making floppies???
Happy New Year!
Santiago
2017-01-01 18:52
On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 5:33 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I never had a USB floppy drive but have experience with regular floppy
> drives, 3.5" and 5.25".
>
> In the later years, I had great trouble with floppy drives. Ability to write
> was lost before the ability to read.
> I was asked why I cannot put FreeDOS on a floppy. Here is the reason. I
> just tried another floppy disk that I found. It is original from before
> 1995, so it may be broken. I can try to check on my 486 once it is up
> and running, but for now this is what I get on Linux when I put the disk
>