Re: Using 8088 computer as a UNIX terminal (over COM1)

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 15:12:04 +0000 (UTC)

On 2004-09-03, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins <hawk@slytherin.ds.psu.edu> wrote:
> In article <10jg43hl0tv7544@news.supernews.com>,
> Martin <nospam@example.org> wrote:
[snip]
> The 1.44 is a later drive, which appeared on Mac first. I don't
> remember the 720's on IBM, but they were far from rare on other makes,
> especially laptops.

Could very well be though. ISTR something like that. Vaguely. Think
the kaypro 2000 slim line luggable would also have something like that.

Shall I mention finding out about the 5.25" floppy drive in a romp
(in casu an ibm 6151 rt/pc) being a 720k drive? What fun I had...

>>It
>>would be tempting to add a small secondhand hard disk but I would imagine
>>that the hard disk controller, if any, wouldn't support modern EIDE disks.
>
> Highly unlikely. Additionally, it probably wants a 2.5"hard disk.

As in modern day 2.5" laptop drives? ITYM 5.25" drives, as 3.5" and
2.5" hard drives were rather rare back then. We're talking ST412 and
other evil stuff. Geez, EIDE looks positively benevolent in comparison,
even though it really is not. One thing though, you can't make popcorn
machines with EIDE the way you can with a bunch of full-height 5.25"
drives on full low-level format tilt.

One might be able to find an 8bit isa ``multi-io'' card that does ide.
That isn't eide/ata but it'll support small disks up to a few gb. Or
maybe just 528MB or something. I'm blissfully ignorant of that now.

Or alternatively an 8bit SCSI card and matching (externally enclosed)
disks. Then you'd need dos scsi drivers or check what scsi cards minix
can talk to. I would imagine scsi be the easiest, even modulo goats. 

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