[Hidden-tech] More packrat stuff... files off an ms-dos system?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:34:53 -0400 Greg Major <greg.major at comcast.net> wrote:

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> Don't make it so complicated. Get an external drive enclosure from 
> Staples (approx. $30.00) and put your old hard disk in it. Then it will 
> plug into any machine through the usb port and you will be able to 
> access all of the files on the hard disk. Just make sure you get the 
> right size enclosure.

Only if it is an IDE drive.  It is likely a MFM or RLL drive.  It might
be a 'hard card', still a MFM or RLL drive, but on a 8-bit XT bus (this
is actually a precursor to IDE drives).  Commonly XT boxes did not have
IDE drives.  Either NO hard drives at all, 'hard cards' (3.5" MFM or RLL
drive mounted on a long XT bus card (later models might have had early
ISA slots, in which case the 'hard card' was almost an IDE drive), or
they had a MFM or RLL controller and a MFM or RLL drive.

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> B. Kimo Lee wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Steven Solomon's "pack-rat" post inspired me to move on this legacy 
> > issue.
> > I have an ancient Espon Equity II+ (MS-DOS) on which are some original 
> > songs my ex wrote years ago. No, she doesn't have hard-copy printouts. 
> > Yes, it has parallel ports!!
> > Thought I'd see if anybody has some thoughts on how to transfer the 
> > files onto an external drive of some sort?
> > Is this even possible? I'm really curious if some of you ultra-geeks 
> > can recommend something. I'd like to recycle that thing and get it out 
> > of my basement once and for all. lol!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kimo
> >
> >
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