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You could use a serial connection to transfer data to a modern computer.
by tinus_hn 4y ago
You could use a serial connection to transfer data to a modern computer.
- ale42 4y agoOr an Ethernet card... there is software supporting Ethernet on DOS. Even almost-contemporary Intel card still have DOS drivers...
- teddyh 4y agoYup: http://crynwr.com/drivers/00index.html http://crynwr.com/drivers/00index.html
- ok123456 4y agoThen you have to make sure that there are no IRQ, DMA, or IO Port conflicts on what is probably an industrial control device device with data collection boards boards using all kinds of non-standard resource addresses. And then, god knows if the device driver for the Ethernet card can coexist with all the other drivers and TSRs, or even if it's running a mainstream version of DOS. Maybe it has a DOS Extender that makes something fail in a non-obvious way. Adding hardware to Old PCs isn't what you're accustomed to.
- Moru 4y agoThey often have a serial or parallel port, especially the industrial ones. Was the only way of communicating with them. That port might be used for the actual job the computer does though.
- ok123456 4y agoDepending on whether or not you have ECP/EPP parallel ports on your machine, LapLink might be the best solution.
- grapescheesee 4y agoYes, exactly. On these old systems you often run into issues with IRQ conflicts for PCI cards. It is common to disable USB and use a PS/2 port for a mouse and keybord.
- RodgerTheGreat 4y agoOr replace the floppy drive with a floppy drive emulator which uses an SD card as a storage medium. They're popular in the retrocomputing community. No other hardware or software changes required, and you replace a whole bunch of moving parts that are bound to fail with something simple and solid-state. Same deal for hard drives in old PCs: image them, and then pop in a faster and moving-parts-free drive emulator.