Floppiless (was: the new Apple iMac)

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Sat May 9 09:21:51 1998

<I kinda have to agree. My laptop has had a dead floppy drive for some ti
<now; probably over 2 years. The only time I really miss it is a) when I
<want to move data/pgms to a machine/person not "connected" or b) when I

A handy way around that is to use intersvr and interlnk provided with dos
6.x. Those combined with a laplink serial or parallel cable can allow you
to annex another systems drives for copies or installs. Using the
parallel cable is faster. It's documented in the MSdos useres guide.

I currently have a headless 386sx/25 with a few small hard disks, and two
non 3.5" floppies and a CDrom that via parallel cable and the interlnk
software serves and a sort of portable disk/cdrom/floppy to all my dos
boxen. It's real handy for systems that only have a floppy or tiny hard
disk. It saves having to have a network or anything more than a bootable
disk with the programs on it (they are small!). Once running all of the
disks on the server end are available as if they were connected locally.


Allison
Received on Sat May 09 1998 - 09:21:51 BST