I have had good luck with generic early Pentium systems (pre P-4) that still have a BIOS that can handle 5 1/4" drives. Best of both worlds in that you get he USB support too. AT the Kennett Classic museum it's a service we offer to make disk images, we have a lot of walk in traffic to copy old disks to a usb stick. Bill
On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:14 AM Jim Brain via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > On 1/19/2023 9:28 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Chris via cctalk wrote: > >> So the ideal setup for best utilizing a GW is what? Or does it not > >> matter if it's a 5150 or a Pentium4? > > > > I would recommend 5170 (AT), to also have the 500K bps data transfer > > rate of its FDC. > > > > Newer PCs often have unnecessary complications. Many no longer even > > support floppies! > > > > > > > Maybe 5170 means something different to everyone else here than it does > to me (I thought it meant IBM PC AT), but GW requires a machine capable > of USB, and I think the system needs to run either a recent version of > Windows or Linux OS, or be a recent vintage MacOS (maybe a FrankenMac > would work, but still, something that will run a recent MacOS version) > > Maybe the question is about ImageDisk, which the 5170 would be fine for > (I have a PII sitting here that runs it with a 1.2MB/1.44MB switchable > dual disk in a half height bay, and a 360kB head load Tec that I think I > bought from Chuck or at least someone on here (still working awesome, > BTW. OS is DOS 6.XX (whatever the newest was before v7 dual boot with > Ubuntu) > > Jim > > -- > Jim Brain > br...@jbrain.com > www.jbrain.com > >
