Hey everyone! A little update. The FreeDOS system is up and running flawlessly! i'm impressed and I like FreeDOS a lot! Unfortunately the floppy disk we have is just a Fix/Update disk for the original programme, but I tested it and it runs perfect and delivers all the files in the correct directories, so the compatibility lokks good. What I miss is the original installation floppy disk, that I bet is somewhere in a drawer at corporate (we are a small laboratory that got the metal analyzer from a big company). With luck we can recover it from the previuos owners. Luck ran out on me when I found out that the floppy drive on the IBM PS2 is malfunctioning, I'll try to clean it and put it back to work but I think the chances are small. If anyone knows a method to recover data from the HD of the PS2 (that is proprietary and cannot be mounted anywhere else) I accept any advice.
Thanks anyone, for now I am waiting for the dreaded floppy disks and for a way to recover data from the PS2. at the moment if it stops working we are with the machine out of order (hope not 😕 ) I'll ask if I need help again. Greetings Mattia Limonta ________________________________ From: Eric Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2020 1:01 AM To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net <freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] R: Freedos for IBM PCDOS 3.30 software Hi Mattia, I would be generally optimistic: You can still get mainboards with DOS compatible parallel printer port and FreeDOS should be okay for running PC DOS 3.30 based apps. Also, keyboard, mouse and VGA graphics should still be supported by the BIOS of modern PC, with some luck even the hardware level PS/2 and VGA access, although that might internally be based on a simulation run by the BIOS, for example for USB keyboard or mouse. This can affect reaction speeds. I would avoid additional PCI I/O cards if possible. Regards, Eric >> ... the analyzer is attached to the 24pin parallel port... _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
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