This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and ended up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system disks for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation device on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

Hope you are all doing well!

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Re: Testing
By: Andeddu to All on Tue Jan 25 2022 08:10 pm

This is just a quick test post. I have been away for around 6 months and end up misplacing a lot of my vintage computer equipment, including my system di for my Mac which I have always used for BBsing. I am using an emulation devi on my computer called Floppy EMU as the orignal disks are gone for good. Everything appears to be working fine now that I have managed to download an operating system which is compatible with the UK keyboard I have.

Hope you are all doing well!

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy
bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial
is used to change disk images.

It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

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Re: Testing
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

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Re: Testing
By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

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Re: Testing
By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary

It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than the device I am currently using.

I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img.
The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS you can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D

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Moondog wrote to Andeddu <=-

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)


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Re: Re: Testing
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.

Nightfox

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Re: Re: Testing
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jan 27 2022 01:24 pm

Re: Re: Testing
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 06:55 am

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a
floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions.
A rotary dial is used to change disk images.

That would have come in handy when installing OS/2 -- 18 disks for the OS, another 15 disks for the fixpaks... :)

I remember that.. OS/2 fixpacks requiring so many floppy disks.. I don't remember if IBM provided fixpacks as a single installer that you could run like Microsoft did for Windows.

then one disk was bad!
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Re: Testing
By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

Re: Testing
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Wed Jan 26 2022 01:51 am

Another floppy substitute that is common is a Gotek. It fits in a floppy bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotary d is used to change disk images.

It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. I will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper than t device I am currently using.

Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features. Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy
would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

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Re: Testing
By: Lux to Andeddu on Thu Jan 27 2022 12:10 am

Re: Testing
By: Andeddu to Moondog on Wed Jan 26 2022 09:13 pm

bay, and will format a usb stick into 1000 floppy partitions. A rotar

It is good to hear vintage computers being put to use.

That's a really neat looking device. I had never heard of a Gotek before. will probably try to fix up a few spares/repairs machines I have this spring/summer and will consider that an option as it is a lot cheaper tha the device I am currently using.

I had thoughts of getting one for the 486 I have so I can have a boot img. The 486 will only boot from a drive 559megs or smaller however once in DOS y can make use of a drive partitioned into a few 2gb segments.

Using a boot disk would be fine too I guess :D

Another option you can try is finding a stand alone IDE controller with it's own BIOs configuration. You would go in your motherboard BIOS, and shut off the hard drives. When the pc boots, a prompt will pop up from the controller card asking to press a key to set up, then show which drives it detects.
That is how the SCSI drives used to connect. You might be able to get away with a CF-IDE adapter with an IDE card

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Re: Testing
By: Moondog to Andeddu on Sat Jan 29 2022 02:23 pm

Goteks sell on amazon starting at $30 on up depending on features.
Depending on the platform it is going in, it may require flashing (pc, amiga, apple.)
I haven't done the research but I heard they were originally made for an electric piana/ keyboard that took floppies to record songs or trasfer instrument data. They also have industrial applications, where a floppy would not last long in a dusty or hot, dirty environment.

Cheers, I'll look into it. I have been interested in floppy disk emulators as floppy disk drives themselves are fragile and don't tend to survive long periods in storage. I have a bunch with damaged mechanisms and broken gears that require a lot of TLC which can be time consuming.

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Good evening!

Testing out the sub.

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On 17 May 2023, Charon said the following...

Testing out the sub.

Looks pretty darn good to me, nes-pa?


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Good evening!

Testing out the sub.

Charon

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Looks like maybe your origin line is missing?


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Hi Everyone

Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
Testing

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Re: Testing
By: Luis Silva to all on Fri Aug 11 2023 07:16 pm

Migrating from PCBoard to sbbs.
Testing

Got you here in Australia :)

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Txs for the reply

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Second test - ignore.

no

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Second test - ignore.

no

Thanx

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Second test - ignore.

no

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