[Coco] Cable assistance
Richard Ivey
rrivey at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 19 12:17:53 EST 2011
ok.. I can live with the 5.25 being drive 0.
I have an existing twisted cable that allows me to use a 3.5, but it wont let
the 5.25 work on the same cable.
So.. I could live with the 5.25 as 0 and the 3.5 as one.
I have a Fry's down the road. Getting cables is not an issue.
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From: gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Sent: Sat, February 19, 2011 10:35:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Cable assistance
On Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:32:50 am Steven Hirsch did opine:
> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, February 19, 2011 09:30:31 am Steven Hirsch did opine:
> >> On Sat, 19 Feb 2011, gene heskett wrote:
> >>> Even that is of relatively little utility since I built this machine
> >>> several years ago, as this $300 ASUS motherboard has an FDC that
> >>> cannot deal with 256 byte sector disk formats regardless of what I
> >>> tell it with setfdparm. (linux of course)
> >>
> >> Gene,
> >>
> >> You may want to keep your eyes open for an ancient ISA-bus
> >> motherboard that can boot Ye Olde version of Linux or MS-DOS. I
> >> keep an early 90s Dell 486 around solely for the purpose of
> >> reading/writing floppy media. It's fitted with a Compaticard IV that
> >> can talk to 3.5, 5 and 8" floppy drives. Install the free uSoft
> >> TCP/IP stack and a junk-box ISA ethernet adapter and you have the
> >> perfect "shop" machine.
> >>
> >> It can also dual-boot (using LILO, remember that?) to Linux
> >> 2.0.something.
> >>
> >> I dislike running anything with the uSoft name on it, but for utility
> >> purposes it's too handy to pass up.
> >>
> >> Steve
> >
> > I have such a box, has RH7.3 on it IIRC. But getting to it to hook up
> > a monitor and keyboard & mouse, all ps2 stuff as its USB is only
> > partially usable, and that only after it is booted. I need to clear
> > it out from under the old desk and maybe put that mobo in a smaller
> > box. That one is an industrial sized steel tower about 32" tall &
> > weighs about 30 pounds empty. It has a 450 mhz K6-II in it and 384
> > megs of ram. A monster, in its day. :) Hasn't been powered up since
> > I put DD-WRT on a similar but much smaller box, using it for a
> > router. Up till then, it was my firewall/gateway machine. A
> > whopping big 42 gig hard drive.
>
> I keep a pile of IBM Type M keyboards in the garage loft for just such
> purposes. In fact, I use them on everything - though a PS/2 to USB
> adapter when necessary. Just cannot touch-type accurately on anything
> else, since I learned to type on a selectric (dates me, I guess).
Thats 30 years newer than my mothers old Remington.
> > I have got to clean house in my man cave. Just as soon as I find a
> > good pattern to carve me and few friends on this list, a batch of
> > round tuit's.
> Tell me about it... In recent years, I've started ridding myself of the
> large, heavy classic items and have actually scraped down through
> several archeological strata in the process. My Corvus networking and
> computer gear finally surfaced and I've been bringing my Omninet
> network back to life. Have Apple 2, 3, Macs and PC talking to it.
>
> Someone on the list has a couple of CoCo Omninet interface prototypes,
> but I haven't been able to convince him to part with them. My pipe
> dream is to write or reverse-engineer a driver to get the CoCo online.
>
> Steve
Chuckle, rotsa ruck there Steve. Now they just passed some new rule over
at the landfill and I can't even get rid of some old glass monitors.
--
Cheers, Gene
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