On 1999-03-06 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>My first computer was an XT *without* a HDD. I've seen
>many of them since. It was a great way for me to learn
>good file management. When I finally got a computer with a
>HDD, I was already fanatical about how I arranged the
>files. <g>
My first computer was a Commodore Vic-20 without a floppy drive....all I had
was a tape drive :-) Copying software sure was cool......two tape decks and
a patch cord :-)
>Yep, I like to have 5.25"HD drives in most of my computers
>too. I often come across old software on that media so its
>handy that way. Also, someone gave me about a hundred new
>disks a couple of years ago and I use them to archive my
>collection of utilities. There's not that much difference
>in space between a 1.2Meg and 1.44Meg floppy anyway. The
>drives from the XTs were DD (360) though, and not that
>useful. I do keep one machine with that capability
>however so that I can write disks for old machines.
I put a full height 360K drive on my late model 386 :-) I don't have too
much use for the 1.2meg drives because they don't work with the 360K
floppies too well. My main reason for wanting a 5.25" drive is becasue of
my IBM PC...it has two, but no HD.
>One thing I found a bit ugly is the use of tape to make
>them read only. What I do is install a little switch and
>and a status LED in the drives so that I can write to the
>disks whether they have the tape on them or not. When the
>switch is in the other position, it is impossible to write
>to them. This is the system of "SAFE/READY" modes which is
>normally used on professional tape machines. It's great
>for archive disks because you don't have to worry about
>ruining them, just leave the swich in "SAFE" mode as the
>default.
Thats a neat idea....I have heard of Apple drives being converted to work
that way. I didn't know it would work on a PC drive, However.
Chad A. Fernandez
Battle Creek, MI
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2X - Test Drive
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