Old DOS on topic yet?

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Thu Sep 25 19:16:54 2003

> I would like to get an old single floppy DOS laptop machine
> on my local network. Anyone know how to get DOS to work with
> a PCMCIA card (uh too new?)

Well.... One question comes to mind, if it's a single floppy laptop (I
translate that as meaning it doesn't have a HD), does it even have a PCMCIA
card slot? If it doesn't, does it have an bidirectional parallel port
(isn't that called EPP?). If you have the PCMCIA slot, you'll need to find
a card that is old enough that there was DOS support for it. Hopefully you
can get one that includes the drivers and instructions.

Warning, setting such a thing up is not fun. The next question is, what do
you plan on using for networking software? Such things for DOS weren't
exactly common either.

                        Zane
Received on Thu Sep 25 2003 - 19:16:54 BST