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Can you not find an ISA Ethernet card and copy the files over the network? There are plenty of TCP stacks out there -- I was even able to use ssh when I tried i
by cout 4y ago
Can you not find an ISA Ethernet card and copy the files over the network? There are plenty of TCP stacks out there -- I was even able to use ssh when I tried it years ago (though I had to use ssh v1 and increase the handshake timeout since my 386SX was struggling to keep up).
- bombcar 4y agoFighting with DOS Ethernet is way harder than using a floppy and a USB floppy drive.
- EvanAnderson 4y agoAn NE2000 in a box without a bunch of other ISA cards competing for IRQs isn’t too bad. A DOS packet driver is pretty plug-and-play and will open up various DOS tools for common protocols (FTP, HTTP being the most useful for file transfer).
- bombcar 4y agoYeah, but anything still running and important these days (and not already virtualized) likely has one or more custom ISA cards doing undocumented things. You could get it to work, probably, but do you want to explain to the boss why the mass spectrometer is dead because you didn’t like using the floppy?