Just whining... My 5150 PC is up and running. I received some 360KB disks from fellow member Stone and formatted one with /s to reduce needing to use my vintage and genuine IBM DOS 2.1 disk.
My MFM hard drive has failed and I have no way to talk to the 5150 (file transfer). I purchased a parallel Zip 100MB drive on eBay for dirt cheap, but I cannot get the guest.exe driver onto a 360KB disk, as the file lives on my quite modern desktop. I wish I had held onto some of my older gear now. Moving and divorce has led to the elimination of almost all my old-school gear (like those dual 5.25/ 3.5" floppy drives). Anyhow, I am just whining that I am so close but cannot get my files to my 5150. My dad has an old Packard Bell he is going to give to me, and I hope that machine has what I need to bridge this gap.
I think the long term solution lies in the CF to IDE solutions that are being worked out using an 8bit ISA slot.
Rant/ whining over, as you were...
Tom.
My MFM hard drive has failed and I have no way to talk to the 5150 (file transfer). I purchased a parallel Zip 100MB drive on eBay for dirt cheap, but I cannot get the guest.exe driver onto a 360KB disk, as the file lives on my quite modern desktop. I wish I had held onto some of my older gear now. Moving and divorce has led to the elimination of almost all my old-school gear (like those dual 5.25/ 3.5" floppy drives). Anyhow, I am just whining that I am so close but cannot get my files to my 5150. My dad has an old Packard Bell he is going to give to me, and I hope that machine has what I need to bridge this gap.
I think the long term solution lies in the CF to IDE solutions that are being worked out using an 8bit ISA slot.
Rant/ whining over, as you were...
Tom.